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Brad’s adopting Pax!

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s recently adopted son, 3-year-old Pax Thien from Vietnam, will officially get the name Jolie-Pitt like the couple’s other three children.

While rumors in Hollywood say the relationship between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may be on the rocks, the actress, who adopted the child in late march from a Vietnamese orphanage, has filed the papers on Monday, April 16th, in Santa Monica Superior Court to change Pax Thien’s last name so that it will include “the last name of her partner,” Brad Pitt, and be the same as that of the couple’s other children.

Angelina Jolie is named as the child’s mother but no name is given for the father. The words “adopted child” are typed in the space left for the father’s name.

A hearing will be held on the name change on May 31st at the Santa Monica Courthouse, it has been reported.

Celebrity gossip website, TMZ.com was the first to publish the formality papers required to legally change the boy’s name.

Jolie, who began the adoption process last year, completed the procedure in late March after flying to Vietnam with her oldest son, 5-year-old Maddox.

She filed the adoption as a single parent because the country’s regulations do not allow unmarried couples to co-adopt, however single parents are allowed.

Pax Thien, whose name means peaceful sky, joined Shiloh, the couple’s youngest daughter, Cambodian-born Maddox and Zahara, who was adopted from Ethiopia.

Previously named Pham Quang Sang, Pax Thien was abandoned after his mother gave birth in a local hospital. He was placed at the orphanage with hopes that his birth parents could be found. He was the first and only child recommended to Jolie for adoption.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who starred in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” together, visited the Tam Binh Orphanage in Vietnam, over Thanksgiving Day last November when they reportedly fell in love with Pax.

“You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings with new people and a new language. He is very strong,” Jolie said of her new son.