Jenelle took a break from…whatever it is that she does all day.. to provide some updates on her eldest son, Jace, revealing how he’s been doing since he came home in early June after Jenelle sent him to Florida to live with his long-lost father, Andrew Lewis. (The Ashley broke the news that Jace was back with Jenelle after only a few weeks with his dad.)
In a video posted to Facebook on Friday, Jenelle declared that Andrew is “an active alcoholic.”
“We didn’t know that. We thought he changed and he didn’t so Jace just wanted to come home,” Jenelle said. (As The Ashley told you, Jenelle sent Jace to live with Andrew solo and had never actually checked out where Jace would be living.)
Since Jace’s return to Nevada, Jenelle told People that she’s “cherishing” her time with the teen.
“It’s really crazy because you see the transition from a little boy to a young man, and he’ll be 16 in August, and it’s just really crazy,” she said. “It just flies by so quick. So I’m just really cherishing every moment I can before he turns 18 and decides to leave.”
In a vlog posted this week, Jenelle revealed that one of the next tasks she plans to tackle is getting all of her kids’ last names changed to her last name, Evans, which she recently had reinstated after her divorce.
“I’m going to look into getting the kids’ names changed, all to my name, my last name,” she said. “We’ll see how that goes.”
As fans know, all three of Jenelle’s kids have different last names. While Jace has the last name of Evans, Jenelle’s middle son Kaiser has the last name of his father, Nathan Griffith. Jenelle’s daughter, Ensley, has the last name of her father David Eason.
Since Nathan is currently in prison and has no custodial rights to Kaiser, she shouldn’t have any issues getting his last name changed from Griffith to Evans.
According to Nevada’s website regarding child name changes, only one parent’s consent is needed if the second parent has no legal rights to the child. Kaiser just turned 11 so the court doesn’t need his consent to have his name changed. (Any child over the age of 14 needs to consent to the name change.)
As for Ensley, though, David’s rights have not been terminated, even though Jenelle has full custody currently. That may make changing Ensley’s last name a challenge.
“If one parent will not agree to have a child’s name changed, the other parent can file papers to have a judge legally change the child’s name,” the website states. “The non-consenting parent must be served with copies of the name change papers and given a chance to object. A judge may or may not grant a child’s name change without the other parent’s consent.
“Notifying a parent about a child’s proposed name change cannot be avoided just because the parent is not involved in the child’s life or the parent’s location is unknown.”
