Jennifer C. Weathers -- who repeatedly made news headlines last year after her 27-year-old daughter tumbled to her death from Weathers’ moving car -- wants to change her name.

Weathers, 50, filled out a name change application and submitted it to Washington County Circuit Court on Monday. She’s asking a judge to change her name to Jennifer C. Jaeger.

The process costs $117 and takes about two weeks for approval, according to the Oregon Judicial Department.

Reached by phone Tuesday, Weathers said she didn’t want to comment about her name change, including the reason for it. According to court records, Jaeger appears to be a last name that Weathers used earlier in her life.

A screenshot from Jennifer Weathers' name-change application.

She turned in her application one day after she was released Sunday from Yamhill County Jail, having completed a five-night sentence for driving under the influence of intoxicants on the Aug. 18 night her daughter, Meighan Cordie, died.

Weathers, Cordie and Cordie’s young daughter had left a rural Yamhill County wedding that summer night and had planned on returning to Weathers’ King City home.

Police and prosecutors originally investigated whether Weathers should be charged with a homicide after her daughter’s body was found down an embankment Aug. 23. Yamhill County District Attorney Brad Berry said Cordie apparently jumped or fell from the moving car that Weathers was driving.

Weathers called non-emergency dispatchers on Aug. 19 and said she was “kind of worried” about Cordie because she hadn’t seen her daughter since the wedding. She said she checked jails and hospitals, to no avail.

Prosecutors say Weathers didn’t tell investigators all that she knew, including that she had gotten into a physical fight with her daughter in the car and that her daughter had pulled out a clump of her hair.

But Berry said there was insufficient evidence to pursue homicide charges against Weathers. The state medical examiner’s office ruled Cordie’s death accidental.

-- Aimee Green

agreen@oregonian.com

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