Updating Birth certificate?

alanalea

Hi all,

I had my daughter 14 weeks ago and registered her as normal. Her father and i are not married but she has still got his surname. We're due to get married next weekend and my sister has just told me that i will need to redo or update her birth certificate or the register.

Does anyone know anything about this or what she is going on about?

Thanks

Lea x

divadee

You dont have to when you get married but it is best to. Just phone your local registry office and they will explain it all to you. You just make an appointment, go and they redo the borth certificate for you if you are still in the area where she was born. If you are not then your local one fill sin all teh forms ad you sign and then sends all the forms off to the office where your daughter was registered.


If I remember rightly its so he has full parental responsiblity when you get married.

divadee

Just found this for you on my local council site


Re-registering a birth

On the marriage of a child's natural parents you need to re-register a birth.

The status of children born to parents who are not married to each other changes if and when they do marry. It is in the child's interest that his/her entry of birth is updated to reflect this change. The parents are required by law to re-register the birth.

Application forms to register the birth again can be obtained from any Register Office, where staff are available to give further advice. An appointment will then be made for either parent to see the registrar to re-register the birth. It needs to be made clear when making the appointment that it is for a re-registration to enable the original birth entry to be found and made available. A certified copy of the parent's marriage certificate must also be taken to the Register Office where the re-registration is to take place.

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Helen_from_yorkshire

Just to clarify PR (Parental Responsibility) - all fathers of children born after 1 Dec 2000 (the date could be marginally wrong) automatically have PR. Prior to that, fathers of children who were not married to the mother at the time of the child's birth did not automatically get PR but could choose to apply for this through the Court. However, if they subsequently married the mother, they gained PR for the child even tho the child was born before the marriage.

divadee

Helen_from_yorkshire wrote:

Just to clarify PR (Parental Responsibility) - all fathers of children born after 1 Dec 2000 (the date could be marginally wrong) automatically have PR. Prior to that, fathers of children who were not married to the mother at the time of the child's birth did not automatically get PR but could choose to apply for this through the Court. However, if they subsequently married the mother, they gained PR for the child even tho the child was born before the marriage.

that could be why i got it wrong!!! My daughter was born before that!!! I knew when we had to re-register it was to get Parental Responsibility as well. Thanks

Threadhead

We did this! We got married 8 weeks after our son was born (I was a fat bride LOL). We didnt update our sons birth cert until we registered our daughters birth 18 months later. There was no urgency to it, although this was 8 years ago. We were told at that time that it wasnt necessary, just a nice thing to do. It was all pretty straightforward as far as I remember.

I would recommend that you get a "full" copy of the new birth cert, as this is all they will accept when you apply for a passport. Once you re-register the birth, the old certificate becomes invalid (wish they'd told me that before I applied for sons passport!)

Good luck for your wedding day :j

BrokeBrokeBroke

My son was born in 2003, and I was told I could re-register him if I wanted to after his father and I married, but that the main reason was so the new certificate reflected my married name. When the forms came through they talked about 'legitimising' his birth, so I got my knickers in a twist and refused to do it! I never heard that it was mandatory... I need to look into this now I think. Although we applied for a passport for him with his original certificate at the same time as I changed my name on mine and it wasn't queried, so surely if it was a legal requirement the Passport Office or whoever would have been in touch and not let him have a passport??? Anyway, I'll do it if I absolutely have to, but won't otherwise!

Bossyboots

Helen_from_yorkshire wrote:

Just to clarify PR (Parental Responsibility) - all fathers of children born after 1 Dec 2000 (the date could be marginally wrong) automatically have PR. Prior to that, fathers of children who were not married to the mother at the time of the child's birth did not automatically get PR but could choose to apply for this through the Court. However, if they subsequently married the mother, they gained PR for the child even tho the child was born before the marriage.

This is not correct at the beginning and the date is years out, not marginally. Father of children born after 1st December 2003 who are named ON THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATE automatically have PR.

Otherwise, PR is obtained by the natural parents marrying, a Parental Responsibility Agreement being signed by the parents or by Court Order. I know of nobody who has re-registered their child following the acquisition of post registration parental responsibility. I also can't find anything on the website of the General Register Office that states this is compulsory, only that it is possible to do.

ioscorpio

I'm not being funny, but's what's wrong with getting married before your children are born? I'm not a prude, I was pregnant when I get married.

alanalea

Thankyou so much to all that replied, i just thought that my sister was being dotty again lol

Oh well, one more thing to add n my list of things to do Its hard work arranging a party!