Thank you very much. It makes sense now...

Diana

Virginia E Hench wrote:
>
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Diana Bennett wrote:
> ...
> > I have some information about a Chancery Court case. She asks the
> > sheriff to summon John Glass guardian "ad litem" of the children's
> > names. This took place in Lawrence Co., AL in 1828.
> >
> > What does ad litem mean? ...
> > Diana Kercheval Bennett
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>  Hi Diana - a "guardian ad litem" is a person appointed by a court
>  to protect the interests of the ward - in the case you mention, the
>  wards would be the children.
>
>  In a divorce case, for example, the children's interests might
>  well be different from the interests of either of  the parents.
>  I have not run across a guardian of a child's name, but I would
>  guess that it was a petition in chancery (a court of equity)
>  to change the children's names. Perhaps their mother was widowed
>  or divorced, has remarried, and wants to change their names.
>  Their father, if living, or his relatives if he was not living
>  at the time, might have been contesting the name change.
>
>  Virginia E. Hench
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