Q. Why "Claire Kisiel?"
A. On Horman's name-change request, she states that Kisiel was her last name at birth.
As a side note, Moulton was the last name she took on when she was adopted. She changed her last name to Horman when she married Kaine Horman, Kyron's dad, in 2007. Kaine and Terri Horman's
divorce was finalized in December 2013, more than six years after they married.
As for why she wants her first name to be Claire, she appears to like the name. Back at
an August hearing in Douglas County, she asked a judge to change her name to "Claire Stella Sullivan."
Q. What happened at that hearing?
A. Horman said she needed a new name "to start over a new life without having the stigma of Horman attached to it." She said she hadn't been able to find a job in the past four years. She also said her life had been threatened, and she was worried about her safety.
Circuit Judge Randolph Lee Garrison
denied Horman's attempt.
"Your connection to the Kyron Horman disappearance is something of great public interest," Garrison said. "There are folks that say that you have nothing to do with it. There are others that think that you have.
"As long as this matter remains unsolved, unresolved and until more information is given by you about that, it doesn't seem to be in the public's interest to change your name,'' Garrison said.
Q. Why try again?
A. State law requires judges to approve name changes, unless a judge "finds that the change is not consistent with the public interest." So perhaps Horman has come up with new reasons for the name change.
Or -- because the law does rely on an individual judge's discretion of what's in the public's interest -- maybe Horman wants to try again with a fresh set of eyes considering her request.
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