Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, the youngest daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has taken another formal step in the process of removing “Pitt” from her legal surname.

According to Los Angeles County Superior Court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the 18-year-old has completed the publication requirement connected to her petition to legally change her name from Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie.

The filing does not mean that the name change has already been approved. However, it moves Vivienne further along in the legal process and comes as several of her siblings have also taken steps to stop using their father’s surname.

Vivienne Published a Legal Notice Four Times

As part of the California legal procedure, Vivienne published a notice announcing her proposed name change in the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

Court documents indicate that the notice appeared on July 24, July 31, Aug. 7 and Aug. 14.

The publication serves as formal public notice that Vivienne is asking the court to change her legal name. Her request is currently pending and has not yet been granted.

The next major step is a court hearing scheduled for Nov. 2, when her petition can be considered further.

According to the proof-of-publication documents, anyone seeking to object to the requested change must submit a written objection explaining the reason at least two court days before the scheduled hearing. The objecting party would also be required to appear in person.

She Filed the Petition in July

Vivienne initially filed her petition with Los Angeles County Superior Court on July 21, requesting that “Pitt” be removed from her surname.

In the court documents, she gave a brief explanation for the request, listing her reason simply as “personal.”

The petition represents the most formal step Vivienne has taken so far regarding the surname, although she had publicly used a shorter version of her name before entering the legal process.

In May 2024, Vivienne was credited as “Vivienne Jolie” in the Playbill for the Broadway musical The Outsiders.

She had worked alongside her mother, Angelina Jolie, on the production, which became a notable professional experience for the then-teenager.

At the time, the shortened credit attracted attention because it omitted “Pitt,” although it was not yet confirmation that her legal surname had changed.

Her 2026 court filing made that intention official.

Zahara and Maddox Are Going Through Similar Processes

Vivienne is not the only one of Jolie and Pitt’s children pursuing a legal surname change.

Her siblings Zahara Jolie-Pitt, 21, and Maddox Jolie-Pitt, 25, also filed notices seeking to remove “Pitt” from their legal names.

Like Vivienne, both published notices in the Los Angeles Daily Journal as part of the required California legal procedure.

Their cases are moving on separate timelines.

Maddox’s hearing is scheduled for Sept. 14, while Zahara’s is scheduled for Sept. 28.

Zahara had already publicly stopped using the Pitt surname before filing her legal petition.

During her graduation from Spelman College on May 17, 2026, the official commencement program listed her as “Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt.”

However, when she walked across the stage, her name was announced as “Zahara Marley Jolie.”

The moment drew renewed attention to how some of Jolie and Pitt’s children have chosen to identify publicly.

Shiloh Legally Changed Her Name in 2024

Another daughter, Shiloh, had already completed the legal process two years earlier.

Born Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, she filed a petition to become Shiloh Jolie on May 27, 2024, the day she turned 18.

Her requested change was later legally granted in August 2024.

At the time, Shiloh’s attorney, Peter Levine, described the move as an independent and significant decision made by a young adult after difficult personal circumstances.

He emphasized that Shiloh had followed the required legal process to make the change official.

Her case received significant public attention because it marked one of the clearest legal indications that Jolie and Pitt’s children were making individual decisions about whether to continue using their father’s surname.

A Family Relationship Under Scrutiny

The surname changes have unfolded against the backdrop of the long and highly publicized breakdown of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s marriage and family relationship.

Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016, and the former couple spent years involved in legal disputes following their separation.

Their children have largely avoided speaking publicly in detail about their individual relationships with either parent, meaning the reasons behind each name decision have generally remained private.

Vivienne, for example, offered no detailed explanation in her filing beyond saying that the change was for personal reasons.

However, sources close to the family have offered conflicting interpretations of the wider situation.

In July 2026, a source described as being close to Pitt told PEOPLE that the decisions were the result of what the source characterized as a prolonged campaign of parental alienation.

The source called the situation deeply sad and accused one parent of turning the children against the other.

Those comments represented the perspective of a source close to Pitt and were not a statement from Vivienne, Zahara, Maddox or the other children themselves.

Pitt Reportedly Had Little Contact with His Adult Children

Questions about Pitt’s relationship with his children have been circulating publicly for years.

In 2024, a source told PEOPLE that Pitt had “virtually no contact” with his adult children at that point, although he reportedly still had visitation with some of his younger children.

That dynamic has changed with time because all of Jolie and Pitt’s children have now reached adulthood.

Vivienne was born in July 2008 alongside her twin brother, Knox. They are the youngest members of the former couple’s six-child family.

Jolie and Pitt’s children are Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.

As they have grown older, several of them have increasingly made personal choices outside the direct control of either parent, including decisions about how they wish to be identified publicly and legally.

Vivienne’s Petition Is Still Pending

Despite the attention surrounding Vivienne’s newspaper publication, her surname has not yet been legally changed.

For now, the official request remains before the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Her Nov. 2 hearing will be the next significant stage of the case.

If the court approves the petition, her legal name would officially change from Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie.

Until then, the newspaper notice represents another procedural milestone rather than a final ruling.

Still, Vivienne’s petition is part of a broader and increasingly visible pattern within the Jolie-Pitt family. Shiloh has already legally removed “Pitt,” while Maddox and Zahara have begun their own legal processes and are awaiting their respective hearings.

For Vivienne, the court filing follows years in which she had already begun presenting herself publicly as “Vivienne Jolie,” particularly through her work on The Outsiders.

Whether her petition is approved will ultimately be decided through the legal process later this year, but her latest filing makes clear that her decision to seek a different legal surname has moved well beyond an informal professional credit and into the courts.