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| My family had the same situation when my mother remarried when I was 8 years old. Granted we were in the UK and not Switzerland, so I don't know what the laws or regulations are here, but I wanted to take the surname of my newly acquired step-dad so that I didn't have a different name to my Mum and Dad.
The advice as I recall was to either :
1. Have my Mum contact my Father to ask his permission to allow me to be adopted formally by my Step-Dad. As we had no contact for the previous 7 years, that was clearly quite a tricky one!
2. Just change my name. No deed-poll or anything. I was under the age where it apparently mattered and I could just be known by another name.
My folks chose option 2 and thus I was known my surname number 2 from the age of 8 until I got married at 26.
Getting married caused a few issues as I didn't want my birth surname on my marriage certificate and my banns to be read in a name that no one knew, so I changed my name by deed-poll for about £40 and so everything worked out just fine in the end.
So, rest assured, it can be done, but I am sorry that I can't help you with the rules of this country. | |
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In the UK you can just change your name if you so wish with no formality, sadly this does not apply to Switzerland.