Superior Court >Self- Service Center >Forms >Civil Cases APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF NAME FOR AN ENTIRE FAMILY Last Updated: September 18, 2007

ATTENTION: Use the forms on this page only if the following factors apply to your situation:

• You want to ask the Court to change the name of your family (yourself and/or your spouse and/or minor children) and you are a resident of the county where you are filing this request, AND,
• You are either the husband/father or wife/mother of that family.

DO NOT USE THESE FORMS TO:

• Change your name because you got married.
• Add a father's name to birth certificates or establish paternity.

NOTE: For information about name changes that can be obtained without going to court, such as to correct a birth certificate within five years of birth, visit the web site of the Arizona Office of Vital Records at: http://www.hs.state.az.us/vitalrcd

The Arizona Office of Vital Records located at 1818 W. Adams, Phoenix, AZ 85007 is open between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Free covered parking is available one block east on 18th Avenue between Van Buren and Adams streets. You may also call Vital Records at 602-364-1300. (You may experience lengthy hold times.)

This page contains court forms and instructions on how to ask the Court to change your family's name. Be sure the documents are in the following order:

Packets contain ALL forms and ALL instructions needed for this process. Where there are separate packets for Instructions and Forms, get BOTH packets.

Packets
Title	File	English	Spanish
Request a Change of Name for a Family	CVNCF1	PDF	PDF

The individual forms and instructions below are already included in the Packet(s) above. If you choose to download the documents individually, make sure you get ALL of the instructions and ALL of the forms.

Instructions
Order	Title	File	English	Spanish
1	Procedures: How to File a Change of Name With This Court	cvncf10p	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word

Forms
Order	Title	File	English	Spanish
1	Civil Cover Sheet	cv10f	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word
2	Application for Change of Name for a Family	cvncf11f	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word
3	Notice of Hearing Regarding Application for Change of Name	cvnc18f	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word
4	Consent of Parent to Name Change of Other Parent and Waiver of Notice	cvnc15f	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word
5	Consent of Spouse to Name Change of an Adult and Waiver of Notice	cvnc16f	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word
6	Consent of Parent to Name Change of a Minor Child and Waiver of Notice	cvnc17f	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word
7	Consent of Minor to Name Change	cvnc13f	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word
8	Affidavit of Service by Certified Mail	cvnc24f	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word
9	Order Changing Name for a Family	cvncf81f	PDF  |  Word	PDF  |  Word

Available Forms