Can I get my OH Parental Responsibility without being married?

laurenjs88

As the title really, we are long way off getting married, Purley due to costs rather than not wanting too.

We want to give my OH PR of DD1 but looking at the step-parent forms you have to be married or in a civil partnership.

Is there anyway round this? we've been together 2 year have a baby together and DD1's sperm donor has nothing to do with her.

Thanks in advanced! :A

Plans_all_plans

A wedding can be done very cheaply. If you're not religious, a small registry office ceremony is cheap and if you are religious but can't afford Church fees, talk to your Vicar about getting it done for free/a reduced price.

ETA: if your DD's biological dad is on the birth certificate then I think he has to agree to give parental responsibility to someone else (someone will clarify if this isn't the case though)

74jax

Plans_all_plans wrote: »

A wedding can be done very cheaply. If you're not religious, a small registry office ceremony is cheap and if you are religious but can't afford Church fees, talk to your Vicar about getting it done for free/a reduced price.

I would 2nd this.

thorsoak

74jax wrote: »

I would 2nd this.

And I'd 3rd it

onlyroz

Yes, you can certainly get married for just a few hundred £££ and still have a nice day.

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laurenjs88

We are going to get married just to do the PR, Were not planning on getting wed untill were out of debt and brought a house and paid off half the mortgage which could well be another 10-12 years yet. Just wondering if there was a different way of getting him PR.

I have too large a family to have a small cheap wedding!

74jax

laurenjs88 wrote: »

We are going to get married just to do the PR, Were not planning on getting wed untill were out of debt and brought a house and paid off half the mortgage which could well be another 10-12 years yet. Just wondering if there was a different way of getting him PR.

I have too large a family to have a small cheap wedding!

I think what we were all meaning is if you have to be married to get the PR and you want the PR then you can married cheaply. Even the largest of families can have a cheap wedding. If you're getting married for the marriage then your family will completely understand and will want what you want. ie not the big fancy wedding but you and your OH having the marriage.

As for not marrying for 10-12 year because of debt, don't let this stop you from doing what you want and missing out on 10 year sof marriage. it won't make one iota whether you have debt or not, but being husband and wife will be wonderful if that's what you are both wanting.

spender

The law over parental responsiblity has changed over the past few years below I have copied and pasted some useful information so the OP can arranged PR without marriage.


This is not automatically the case for unmarried parents. According to current law, a mother always has parental responsibility for her child.


A father, however, has this responsibility only if he is married to the mother when the child is born or has acquired legal responsibility for his child through one of these three routes:


(from 1 December 2003) by jointly registering the birth of the child with the mother

by a parental responsibility agreement with the mother

by a parental responsibility order, made by a court

Living with the mother, even for a long time, does not give a father parental responsibility and if the parents are not married, parental responsibility does not always pass to the natural father if the mother dies.
All parents (including adoptive parents) have a legal duty to financially support their child, whether they have parental responsibility or not.

Poly,put_the_kettle_on

spender wrote: »

The law over parental responsiblity has changed over the past few years below I have copied and pasted some useful information so the OP can arranged PR without marriage.


This is not automatically the case for unmarried parents. According to current law, a mother always has parental responsibility for her child.


A father, however, has this responsibility only if he is married to the mother when the child is born or has acquired legal responsibility for his child through one of these three routes:


(from 1 December 2003) by jointly registering the birth of the child with the mother

by a parental responsibility agreement with the mother

by a parental responsibility order, made by a court

Living with the mother, even for a long time, does not give a father parental responsibility and if the parents are not married, parental responsibility does not always pass to the natural father if the mother dies.
All parents (including adoptive parents) have a legal duty to financially support their child, whether they have parental responsibility or not.

I was reading up on a related issue last night, and came upon this (apologies for the source!)
It would appear it's all change at the moment in this area, although I've not had chance to look into it in depth.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-33691/Parental-rights-unmarried-fathers.html

74jax

spender wrote: »

The law over parental responsiblity has changed over the past few years below I have copied and pasted some useful information so the OP can arranged PR without marriage.


This is not automatically the case for unmarried parents. According to current law, a mother always has parental responsibility for her child.


A father, however, has this responsibility only if he is married to the mother when the child is born or has acquired legal responsibility for his child through one of these three routes:


(from 1 December 2003) by jointly registering the birth of the child with the mother

by a parental responsibility agreement with the mother

by a parental responsibility order, made by a court

Living with the mother, even for a long time, does not give a father parental responsibility and if the parents are not married, parental responsibility does not always pass to the natural father if the mother dies.
All parents (including adoptive parents) have a legal duty to financially support their child, whether they have parental responsibility or not.

Does this just apply if he is the father of the child though, i'm of the opinion he isn't? I may it wrong though.

Althought she could use this to get OH the PR's for the child they do have together.