Judge criticizes ‘devious’ woman who changed boy’s name without father’s consent
SYDNEY, N.S. — A judge has harshly criticized a Nova Scotia woman who changed her son’s last name without consent from his father, calling her conduct “devious, manipulative and indefensible.”
Justice Theresa Forgeron said the mother arranged to forge the father’s signature on an application to change the boy’s name.
“(The mother) was strategic and manipulative throughout,” said Forgeron in a written decision from the Supreme Court Family Division in Sydney, N.S.
“(Her) story does not have an internal consistency or logical flow, nor is it in harmony with the preponderance of probabilities which a practical and informed person would find reasonable given the particular place and conditions.”