How to Change Birth Certificate?

[TOYFUND]

Please Help. My wife's birth certificate has the wrong fathers name on it. When she was born her mom was still married to another man and the hospital refused to put a different name on the certificate. My wife's father has passed on. Which doesn't allow for his verification of the fact. My motherinlaw has procastinating in getting the certificate changed and has been told that it can't be done. I don't believe that anything can.t be done. Any help as to where to start is greatly appreciated. My wife has always been bothered by this. She was born in 1963 in Missouri. If that makes a difference. Thanks and God Bless.

 

[usmcfamily]

When a child is conceived and/or born within a marriage it is an assumed fact (and even more so in the time you are dealing with) that the child is that of the husband -- legally the hospital had to list the husband as the child's father. For what can happen now - not much...without being able to verify by DNA testing that she is not the biological child of her mother's husband there is no legal way to alter the birth certificate -- my suggestion is learn to deal with the fact that there is a "typo" so to speak on her birth certificate and that the important thing is that she knows the truth in her own heart .... it may bother her that the bc states differently but it really doesn't change anything. The other problem you would encounter is the time frame - changing information after so many years is highly unlikely even if she were able to prove it.
If you truly disbelieve the information people have provided you why not contact an attorney and inquire as to the legal moves to be made? Most attorneys offer free consultation and so to ask would cost nothing and finally give you an answer you might be willing to accept.....