How to Change a Birth Certificate
Soon after a baby is born in a hospital, a clerk gathers all the information from the mother and types it down on a paper, which is known as a birth certificate. During that time, there is a high possibility of a mistake as the mother is exhausted while the clerk can always commit a typographical error. Therefore, if you find out that there are mistakes in the birth certificate, there is a way to change them and this is how you can do it:
Instructions
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In case the name has been misspelled, you need to know about the proper governmental agencies that can make name changes. You will have to pay a fee for filing up a form and after a few days you will receive an edited birth certificate.
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In case you can’t fill out the form and have questions, you need to contact an agency which answers all the FAQ’s for filing up an application to edit your birth certificates. Ask people who might know about these agencies, or you can search about them from different hospitals. They are different institutions in different countries.
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There are times when parents want to fully change the name of the baby, or the parent’s name. In this case, you must visit the court and obtain an order. Once the order has been received, the court will discard the original birth certificate and replace it with a new one.
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At times the parents decide to get married after the child is born. There are certain steps which you need to take in this case since the child’s father name has to be added if the father has not signed a declaration of paternity.
In this case the father has to submit two different forms. The first form is related to the declaration of paternity where he admits that he is the father of the newborn child. Once that form has been filed up, he then has to file up another form since the birth certificate does not mention the name of the father. The second form helps the parents add the father name to the certificate. In case there is a spelling mistake in the father’s name, the second form needs to get resubmitted.
