Q: If my ex-wife has my name taken off my daughter's birth certificate will I have to still pay child support?

She wants to change our daughter last name to her maiden name and take me off the birth certificate

1 Lawyer Answer
Leonard Robert Grefseng
Leonard Robert Grefseng
Answered
  • Divorce Lawyer
  • Columbia, TN
  • Licensed in Tennessee

A: Yes, the birth certificate is not controlling or conclusive. If this is your child ( and since you call her your 'ex-wife" I assume you were divorced and the divorce papers establish a child support obligation), the only way your child support obligation will cease early ( prior to age 18 or graduation fro m high school) will be if your parental rights are terminated as part of an adoption. If she thinks just changing the birth certificate will do that, ( and I don't think that is possible without a court order) you may wish to warn her that she is about to make a mistake.

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