N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 64

§ 64. Effect. If the order shall be fully complied with, and within\nninety days after the making of the order, an affidavit of the\npublication thereof shall be filed in the office in which the order is\nentered, the petitioner shall be known by the name which is thereby\nauthorized to be assumed. If the surname of a parent be changed as\nprovided in this article, any minor child of such parent at the time of\nsuch change may thereafter assume such changed surname.\n Upon compliance with the order and the filing of the affidavit of the\npublication, as provided in this section, the clerk of the court in\nwhich the order has been entered shall certify that the order has been\ncomplied with; and, if the petition states that the petitioner stands\nconvicted of a violent felony offense as defined in section 70.02 of the\npenal law or a felony defined in article one hundred twenty-five of such\nlaw or any of the following provisions of such law sections 130.25,\n130.30, 130.40, 130.45, 255.25, 255.26, 255.27, article two hundred\nsixty-three, 135.10, 135.25, 230.05, 230.06, subdivision two of section\n230.30 or 230.32, such clerk (1) shall deliver, by first class mail, a\ncopy of such certified order to the division of criminal justice\nservices at its office in the county of Albany and (2) upon the clerk of\nthe court reviewing the petitioner's application for name change and\nsubsequent in-court inquiry, may, in the clerk's discretion, deliver, by\nfirst class mail, the petitioner's new name with such certified order to\nthe court of competent jurisdiction which imposed the orders of support.\nSuch certification shall appear on the original order and on any\ncertified copy thereof and shall be entered in the clerk's minutes of\nthe proceeding.\n