IN RE: The Name Change of Rakim Salam ALI (2024)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

IN RE: The Name Change of Rakim Salam ALI

No. 4D2023-1673

Decided: January 03, 2024

Rakim Salam Ali, Palm Beach Gardens, pro se. No appellee.

The trial court denied Appellant's petition for a name change based upon a determination that Appellant verbally “requested” that the court deny his petition. As the court did not reach the merits of Appellant's effort to have his former name restored (the denial of the petition upon Appellant's request was akin to a voluntary dismissal), Appellant is not estopped from filing a new petition for a name change, per section 68.07, Florida Statutes.

Affirmed.

Per Curiam.

May, Damoorgian and Forst, JJ., concur.

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