Instructions For Changing Name And Sex
On Oregon Birth Certificates
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Sec. 33.410 Jurisdiction; grounds. Application for change of name of a person may be heard and determined by the probate court or, if the circuit court is not the probate court, the circuit court if its jurisdiction has been extended to include this section pursuant to ORS 3.275 of the county in which the person resides. The change of name shall be granted by the court unless the court finds that the change is not consistent with the public interest. [Amended by 1967 c.534 s.11; 1975 c.733 s.1]
Sec. 33.420 Notice of application and decree; certificate; minor children.
(1) Before decreeing a change of name, except as provided in ORS 109.360, the court shall require public notice of the application to be given, that all persons may show cause why the same should not be granted. The court shall also require public notice to be given of the change after the entry of the decree.
(2) Before decreeing a change of name in the case of a minor child the court shall require that, in addition to the notice required under subsection (1) of this section, written notice be given to the parents of the child, both custodial and noncustodial, and to any legal guardian of the child. [Amended by 1983 c.369 s.6; 1997 c.872 s.22]
Sec. 33.430 Name of child on birth certificate, how changed; court conference with child.
(1) In the case of a change, by court order, of the name of the parents of any minor child, if the child’s birth certificate is on file in this state, the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics, upon receipt of a certified copy of the court order changing the name, together with the information required to locate the original birth certificate of the child, shall prepare a new birth certificate for the child in the new name of the parents of the child. The name of the parents as so changed shall be set forth in the new certificate, in place of their original name.
(2) The evidence upon which the new certificate was made, and the original certificate, shall be sealed and filed by the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics, and may be opened only upon demand of the person whose name was changed, if of legal age, or by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 33.440 Application by minor child; court conference. When a minor child applies for a change of name under ORS 33.410, the court may, upon its own motion, confer with the child and may exclude from the conference the parents and other persons if the court finds that such action would be in the best interests of the child. However, the court shall permit an attorney for the child to attend the conference, and the conference shall be reported. [1983 c.369 s.5]
The requirement for the gender change on birth certificates requires a court ordered gender change, which can be done by crossing out the word name and inserting gender on the court Name Change form.
Sec. 33.460 Change of Sex. Jurisdiction; grounds; procedure.
(1) A court that has jurisdiction to determine an application for change of name of a person under ORS 33.410 and 33.420 may order a legal change of sex and enter a decree indicating the change of sex of a person whose sex has been changed by surgical procedure.
(2) The court may order a legal change of sex and enter the decree in the same manner as that provided for change of name of a person under ORS 33.410 and 33.420.
(3) If a person applies for a change of name under ORS 33.410 and 33.420 at the time the person applies for a legal change of sex under this section, the court may order change of name and legal change of sex at the same time and in the same proceeding. [1981 c.221 s.1; 1997 c.872 s.23]
Oregon will change both name and sex, and will issue an amended birth certificate, without any designation of what has been amended.
Statute: Or. Rev. Stat. § 432.235(4) (2005).
Updated information as of November 2002:
Contact
Tel: (971) 673-1190
Fax: (503) 234-8417
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Johanna Collins
(971) 673-1137
johanna.d.collins@state.or.us
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