IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF {COUNTY NAME} COUNTY, MISSOURI

JOHN DOE, by his next friend,
JANE JONES	)
{STREET ADDRESS}	)
{CITY}, MO  {ZIP},	)
	)
	)	CASE NO. ____________________
	)
PETITIONER.	)

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

	The court hereby orders that the following Notice of Change of Name be published:  
To Whom It May Concern:  Notice is hereby given that on {DATE}, the Circuit Court of {COUNTY NAME} County, Missouri, entered judgment in Cause Number_____________, changing the name of {ORIGINAL NAME} to {RESULTING NAME}.

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	DATE					JUDGE

NOTE:  This order should be signed by the judge to decrease the costs of publication. If the judgment itself was published, it would be very expensive because of all the extraneous information. This pareddown version satisfies the legal requirements.