Tennessee Judge Orders Infant's Name Changed, Says Messiah is Reserved for Jesus

This will be overturned at the first appellate court simply for the sake of other jurists not wanting to appear stupid in higher, more publicized court hearings. What a dreadful mean-spirited and fundamentally unethical constraint for a judge to put on two parents.

 

this is a case of stupid judge ruling against idiotic parents.

 

How do douche bag religious nuts become judges?

 

Who names their kid that?

& now, for some borderline related comedy

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Tennessee.

 

That's a horrible name for parents to give their kid, but it's still their right to name him whatever they want.

 

tacky name, but it's their right, I guess.

 

This. I strongly suspect that if the parents fight it then it will be overturned. Last time I checked judges don't have the right to name babies over their parents' wishes.

 

Judge should be forced to resign. No basis in law in this at all.

I like the name though, it be a pretty name for a girl, but it probably give her one hell of a superiority complex.

 

why not named him christ? it would have gone over the judge's head.

 

Change his name to Jesus to to **** with the judge.

Idiots on all levels.

 

No one's going to resign or be fired; for administrative sanity and judicial efficiency, I don't know if that would even happen without actual commission of crimes or an accumulation of multiple ethical breaches. The case will be overruled, but there might be enough of a legal basis, or enough judicial discretion in their particular docket, to actually allow for the ruling.

 

That's was pretty good. :grin: Carmenjello kickin some ass.

 

Stupid parents:
1: Apperantly want their child to be picked on (with a name like Messiah he will be bullied)
2: Cannot agree on a last name for the baby and need a judge to sort it out.

And a stupid judge. On what legal ground could she order the name change?

 

Change it to God instead. Make him feel special with the ladies.

 

The judge should lose her job immediately. If you don't know the bill of rights you should be fired.

 

You would need to look up the family law statutes in Tennessee. In Texas, family courts are to decide things based on a "best interests of the child" standard. That is an extraordinarily broad standard and gives the judge discretion to do almost anything they please. Also, if the couple had petitioned the court regarding the child's name because they could not decide on the last name, then the child's name was squarely before the court.

That being said, I do not agree with the court's ruling. Just because I don't agree with it does not necessarily mean that they were totally without a legal basis.

 

I think this is a rare case of universal agreement in D&D.

 

This is the kind of stupid **** I have had to deal with as an attorney. You would not believe the complete LACK of quality Judges in some jurisdictions.