Vivienne Jolie receives court approval to remove Pitt from her legal name
The 18-year-old will be legally known as Vivienne Marcheline Jolie after a judge approved her request in Los Angeles.
Vivienne Jolie received approval from a Los Angeles judge to remove Pitt from her legal name. Following the decision, her official name is Vivienne Marcheline Jolie rather than Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt. The ruling formalizes the 18-year-old's request to stop using her father's surname. The development concerns a name change approved through a court proceeding.
A judge of the California Superior Court in Los Angeles decided the request. Approval was granted on a Monday and gave effect to Vivienne's petition. With the ruling, the legal name changes from the form containing Jolie-Pitt to one retaining Jolie. The precise scope of the decision is judicial acceptance of that change in the young woman's surname.
The modification keeps Vivienne and Marcheline but removes Pitt from the full form that previously ended with Jolie-Pitt. The approved name is Vivienne Marcheline Jolie. The difference between the two versions identifies exactly what the young woman requested and what the court authorized: removing the surname of her father, Brad Pitt, from her legal name.
Vivienne is the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Her decision follows those of three siblings who also stopped using their father's surname. She is therefore the fourth of the couple's children to adopt a name without Pitt. In her case, the change is expressed in the complete new form, with Jolie as the final surname and without the compound Jolie-Pitt.
The court order makes Vivienne Marcheline Jolie her official name. Before approval, she was legally known as Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt; after the decision, her father's surname is no longer part of her legal name. The case centers on that modification, requested by Vivienne and granted by a Los Angeles judge, in a family where three other children also stopped using Brad Pitt's surname.