Article 257. The basis for changing the name, patronymic, and surname of the Marriage (Matrimony) and Family Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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The footnote. The title of Article 257 is as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07/14/2022 No. 141-VII (effective ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication).

The name, patronymic, and surname are changed by the registration authorities upon the personal application of a person who has reached the age of sixteen and wishes to change his name and (or) patronymic, surname.

The name, patronymic, and surname are changed for the following valid reasons:

1) the discordance of the name, patronymic, surname;

2) difficulty pronouncing the name, patronymic, surname;

3) the desire of the spouse to share a common surname with the spouse if, during the state registration of marriage (matrimony), they remained on premarital surnames or the spouse changed the surname to another after the state registration of marriage (matrimony).;

4) the desire to bear a premarital surname, if this is not stated at the dissolution of the marriage (matrimony);

5) the desire to bear a surname shared with children from a previous marriage (matrimony);

6) the desire to bear a premarital surname in the event of the death of a spouse;

7) the desire to share a surname with the children in the event of the death of the spouse, and if the applicant was on a premarital surname;

8) the desire to bear the name and (or) surname corresponding to the nationality of one of the parents chosen by the applicant (for different nationalities of the parents);

9) the desire to bear a name that has actually developed in life, different from the name in the documents;

10) the desire to bear a premarital surname if the spouse's surname was adopted at the time of marriage (matrimony);

11) the desire to bear the family name of the father or grandfather according to national traditions;

12) the desire to bear the surname and (or) patronymic of the person who actually raised the applicant.;

13) the desire to bear the name, patronymic, and surname corresponding to the chosen gender during surgical sex reassignment.

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