Birth certificate

[AWare]

in 1987 i had a daughter and i was not with her father at the time of her birth but with a person who put his name on her birth certificate out of kindness and helping me. in 1988 he and i went our separate ways and in 1989 the county we lived in required a paternity test. i am now married to her father and we want to know how we go about removing this person from her birth certificate and putting her biological father on it, and do we have to go through court to have her name legally changed. this all took place in california and we are now living in north carolina...does this matter?

[Edited by AWare on 03-21-2001 at 11:37 AM]

 

[lawrat]

You will need to have guy on birth cert voluntarily terminate his parental rights (since he is on birth cert, state will recognize him as such). Then have real dad's name put on and adopt child/reinstate parental rights.

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[AWare]

You will need to have guy on birth cert voluntarily terminate his parental rights (since he is on birth cert, state will recognize him as such). Then have real dad's name put on and adopt child/reinstate parental rights.

http://www.attorneypages.com
____________________________________________________________
I am a law school graduate. What I offer is mere information, not to be construed as forming an attorney client relationship.

Even if we had DNA tests done showing that the man on her birth cert. is not her biological father we still have to get him to give up rights? Thanks for your help lawrat, I truly appreciate it.

 

[lawrat]

In the eyes of the law, if a person has held himself out to be the father, even if not the bio dad, he is the father.