Massachusetts Appeals Court September 3, 2010, No. 09-P-572 (Cormier v. Quist)

Natasha Cormier (mother) appeals from a Probate Court order dated December 1, 2006, allowing in part the father’s motion to amend the judgment of paternity; a decree, dated August 1, 2007, on the petition of Jonathan C. Quist (father) changing the name of the parties’ son; and a judgment dated August 1, 2007, dismissing the mother’s change of name petition. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.