Q: I want to get my name on my daughter's birth certificate. How do I go about doing that?
I'm not married to the mother and we have been living together for 20 years, with no desire to get married. I want to get my name on my daughter's birth certificate. This is something I decided to finally take care of.
We looked up the info and printed out the necessary form to fill out. We called to find out what else we need to send with the form, beside our IDs. We were told that the Father has to go to court to get some papers approved by the court. How do we go about getting that started?
A: Are you the father? If you are the father of the child, you can get an adjudication of paternity. That will not put your name on the birth certificate, but it will make you the legal father of the child if you are -- in fact -- the biological father of the child. If paternity is adjudicated to you, then you can fill out a form (ADPH-HS-75 Rev. 08/2010) to put your name on the birth certificate. If you are NOT the biological father of the child the only way you can do this is to adopt the child. 1) Get paternity adjudicated to you. 2) fill out the form. I am assuming the child is a minor.
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