True" welcome, everyone. This is Susan Francis, the deputy director at the Maryland Volunteer Lawyer Service. I want to welcome you today to our name-change training. A few housekeeping points before we jump in today. The PowerPoint for today's presentation is loaded in the handout section, which you can download for yourself. We will also make both the powerpoints and this recorded training available on our recorded training page under the volunteer tab on the MPLS website. We will, as we go through the presentation today, if you have questions, please feel free to type them into the questions. And we'll try to monitor that throughout the training, and we'll certainly look at that at the end of the training. Before I turn over the reins this morning to our wonderful volunteer attorney, I'm going to ask you all to do a little bit of work here. We want to get a sense of the kind of experience that you all have doing name changes, so I'm going to launch a poll here that's going to ask you whether you've done a name change case before, and if you can just please type in your answer whether you have done one or not, that will give us some guidance about the level of experience that folks on the Calder they have. Okay, thanks to everyone for participating. If you haven't, if you could just go ahead and type that in, great. So, I'm going to close this poll. Looks like 64% of you, or 67% of you, have not done name changes before, which is great. So, we'll get some new experience here, and I'm going to launch one more that asks about whether you have any experience correcting birth certificates, and if you could respond to that as well...
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