STEP 6: SCHEDULE your HEARING with Court Administration.
• Contact Court Administration by using the appropriate telephone number below, at least
four (4) business days after you file your Application for Name Change, to obtain the date,
time, place of your hearing, and presiding Commissioner’s name.
• Telephone the number listed below between the hours of 9 a.m. -12 noon or 1 p.m. –
4 p.m.:
If you filed you Application for Name Change at:
o 201 W. Jefferson, Phoenix, call 602-506-1497
o 18380 North 40
th
Street, Phoenix, call 602-506-1497
o 222 East Javelina Avenue, Mesa, 1
st
Floor, call 602-506-2023
o 14264 West Tierra Buena Lane, Surprise, call 602-506-1497
*
*Applications may be filed at Northwest Court Facility, but the hearings will be held at one of the
other locations.
STEP 7: COMPLETE AND DELIVER THE “Notice of Hearing.” The “NOTICE OF HEARING Regarding
Application for Change of Name” is how you must inform a person concerned with or affected by
your name change. If you are married, you MUST inform your spouse of your name change.
• Fill out the “NOTICE OF HEARING Regarding Application for Change of Name” form in this
packet. Use the information you learned from the telephone call with Court Administration to
fill in the date, time and location of the hearing.
• PHOTOCOPY the completed “NOTICE OF HEARING” – make at least two (2) photocopies.
(You may need more than two (2) copies if you choose to inform more than one person
concerned with or affected by your name change.)
• Deliver the completed “NOTICE OF HEARING” form to one of the Clerk of Court locations
listed in STEP 4 above.
STEP 8: NOTIFY ANY INTERESTED PERSON. An interested person is a person concerned with or
affected by your name change.
A Note about Response Times
If you serve an interested party notice by personal service or they agree to signing
and notarizing an “Acceptance of Service,” the party will have twenty (20) days after
service to file a response. However, if you ask a party to sign and notarize a “Waiver
of Notice” and they agree, the party is allowed more time to respond. The party has
sixty (60) days to respond after the request for waiver was sent, or ninety (90) days
after it was sent outside the United States. A.R.C.P. (12)(a)(1)(A). The “Affidavit of
Service,” “Acceptance of Service” or “Waiver of Notice” must be signed and filed with
the court as proof.
A. IF YOU ARE NOT MARRIED: You must provide NOTICE to any person (Interested
Party) concerned with or affected by your name change. There are at least two ways to
provide NOTICE to an Interested Party:
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