Court approves multiple name changes, grants uncontested divorce forms and dismisses a petition for lack of prosecution

The court granted several uncontested administrative and procedural family-court requests during the docket, including multiple name changes, instruction on filing final-decree forms for divorces initiated through an online portal, and a dismissal where a petitioner failed to prosecute a petition.

In one proceeding, the court granted a petition from Matthew Douglas Abbott to change his name to Matthew Douglas Heike (spelling recorded in the petitioner’s form) and signed the order on the bench. A separate petition from Daniel Lee Abbott to change his last name to Hika was likewise approved and the judge directed clerks to prepare signed orders for later pickup.

In case 2025 CV 12, the court accepted the parties’ marital dissolution agreement in a pro se divorce filed by Amanda Jean Moose and Nicholas Romano II and advised them that a separate final-decree form must be completed and submitted to the clerk for the divorce to be officially entered. The judge instructed the parties to print, sign and submit the final-decree form available on the same website where they obtained the initial documents.

The court also dismissed a petition filed by a respondent in the Gravely matter after the petitioner failed to appear to prosecute the petition; counsel for the respondent may file a fee petition supported by affidavit for the judge’s consideration.

Clerks were directed to prepare and file the signed name-change orders and to docket any submitted final-decree forms and fee petitions for further consideration.