Father's Name on Birth Certificate

skipkoo

Hope somebody can give some advice please. My sons girlfriend who is 8 months pregnant has thrown him out and said she wants no more to do with him. I am wondering that if when the baby comes and she does not ring him when she goes into labour, if she registers the birth without him being there, will he have any rights to the baby? He is totally broken hearted about this situation. I really believe that she used him to get pregnant and now that she is, she wants to get on with her life without my son.
Thank you
S

skipkoo

Any good advise, anyone? Please??
S

Zara33

skipkoo wrote: »

Any good advise, anyone? Please??
S

Afraid I don't think it's looking to good if i'm honest...I know the law changed just recently but I really don't think it's worth the paper it's written on especially regarding a father. If he isn't named on the certificate he has no rights i'm afraid.

skipkoo

Zara33, thank you very much. He is heartbroken still and with the baby due any time now it doesnt look as if the heartbreak will end anytime soon. At the moment she is saying that he can see the baby whenever he likes. but as he tells me, he wants to be there every night, all night, with the babys mum. together as a couple and to be a real father. I am sitting here writing this with tears pouring down my face as there is not a thing that I can do to help him.
Regards
Skipkoo

Mojisola

This won't make him a full-time father but he can at least apply for parental responsibility and will be able to have contact with his child -www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/ParentsRights/DG_4002954

Zara33

skipkoo wrote: »

Zara33, thank you very much. He is heartbroken still and with the baby due any time now it doesnt look as if the heartbreak will end anytime soon. At the moment she is saying that he can see the baby whenever he likes. but as he tells me, he wants to be there every night, all night, with the babys mum. together as a couple and to be a real father. I am sitting here writing this with tears pouring down my face as there is not a thing that I can do to help him.
Regards
Skipkoo

Skipkoo is there no chance they will get back together? Maybe once she has the child she will feel differently, maybe let her know that he will always be there for the child. It's very difficult! he sounds like a lovely chap.

skipkoo

Mojisola, thanks for the link. I have saved it and will look at it with him.
Zara, thanks for your words. I honestly dont think there is any chance of them getting back together. They had only been together for 3 months when she became pregnant. In the time he has known her she has never worked full time, the occasional shifts here and there, and when she became pregnant, that was it, no more work as she suffered too badly with morning sickness. She spent much of her time here, while he was working 45 hrs a week at a local hotel. While she was here, she drank coffee and watched the tv and chatted and surfed on his laptop, spending all the time shut up in his bedroom, just coming out for the occasional cigarette, to use the bathroom and get drinks. They moved into a rented flat in early April and she has continued to spend her time in the same way. Oh good grief, do I sound bitter?? I am! I am so very angry with her for what she has done to my beautiful son, he believes it is all his fault and that she is perfect. He says the rows they have had were all his fault because he asked her not to smoke and when she carried on, he got cross! I know he is not perfect and is in no way an angel, but what she has done to him is so cruel.. Her parting words to him were that she has been trying to make him leave her for 7 months and when he didnt, she drove him out.
Cruel, cruel world.
S

Pssst

What a wretched man he must be....

xmaslolly76

marshmallows wrote: »

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/ParentsRights/DG_4002954

Ahh that was a very interesting read it would appear that my ex husband would not have parental rights over my kids as we married after they were born and we never reregistered them as children of the marriage.

AsknAnswer

gillz83 wrote: »

I know that in scotland the father has no rights over the child unless the mother signs something to say he has parental rights, its different in england, fathers have rights unless proven not to be the father. Im not sure what happens if the mother dies though.

I'd just like to correct this, incase anyone is doing a search and relies on that.

In Scotland, fathers have the same rights and responsibility as the mother if they are named on the birth certificate as the father of a child born on or after 4th May 2006.

In England and Wales, the same applies - only the dates are different. In England and Wales it is effective for any child born on or after 1st December 2003