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Trial Court Had Ordered Mother to Only Call Son by First Name (Javier), not Middle Name (Reece), in Public
But the Colorado Court of Appeals just reversed that, in part on First Amendment grounds.
Eugene Volokh | 12.26.2025 8:51 AM
From In re Marriage of Teruel De Torres, decided Wednesday by the Colorado Court of Appeals (Judge Sueanna Johnson, joined by Judges Craig Welling and Lino Lipinsky de Orlov):
In this post-dissolution of marriage proceeding involving Jocelyn Javernick (mother) and Juan Javier Teruel De Torres (father), mother appeals the district court's December 22, 2023 order (December 2023 order), which … determined that … the parents may only refer to the child … as "Javier" or "Javi" (and not his middle name, "Reece") in … public settings.
The court dissolved the parents' marriage in May 2020. The parents have one child, who was born in September 2018. The child's full legal name is Javier Reece Teruel. During the dissolution proceedings, mother requested that the child's name be changed to Reece Teruel Javernick, claiming that the parents had called him Reece since birth. Father objected, arguing that mother was trying to distance the child from him by changing the child's name, particularly as the........
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