Colorado Name

Change Process

Fingerprints for FBI & CBI

(CNCP recommends
Flowchart created by Emma Shinn and the
No Colorado Fingerprinting for
Colorado Name Change Project -
Are you 18 or older? fastest results)
www.namechangeproject.org

Rev. 19 Apr 2018

See Minor
Name Change Yes
Flowchart
Receive FBI & CBI
background check
reports
Yes Are you < 19 AND have No
divorced parents or court order re:
parenting time?

Notify the DA in each

jurisdiction where a Yes Felony
felony conviction was conviction?
entered

No
Complete JDF Forms
386, 426, 427, & 387
Request Exemption  Are you ≥ Yes
Attach FBI & CBI results
as Exhibit A and copies from Publication? (1)  70?
of the letter(s) you sent
to the DA(s) 
Yes No
No

File forms with Complete JDF Forms

File all forms and the Motion for
County Court within 433, 426, 427, & 448.
Exemption with County Court
90 days of the
within 90 days of the earliest
earliest background Attach FBI & CBI results
background check
check as an exhibit

Complete JDF Forms

389 & 387
Attend Hearing, if
required Attach FBI & CBI
results as an exhibit.
If fingerprints are
unreadable,
alternative options
are available.
No / Not Filed Was Motion for Exemption from Yes
Publication granted, if filed?

Submit Notice of
Publication to Newspaper provides File Proof of Get Final Decree.
appropriate Proof of Publication Publication with Court  CONGRATS!
newspaper

1. Publication is not required if petitioner/minor is a (1) victim of domestic violence, (2) victim of child abuse, (3) victim of domestic abuse, or (4) if other
good cause shown