birth certificate

[wendygarr]

My daughter and her boyfriend split up when she was 3months pregnant. After the bsby was born she made an appointment to register the baby .she gave the baby her x boyfriends last name and asked him to go with her to register the baby. He couldnt make the appointment .she cancelled it and rebooked it .again he couldnt make it so she went along and registered her on her own .. now 5 months later hes decided he want his name on the certificate. Hes told my daughter he will no longer have the baby until she put his name on or give her any money.. she still wont put his name on . So now he says hes getting social cervices involved to make her put his name on ..? Can she be forced to do this by anyone. Ie courts social cervices ? ..

[bellediva]

He can make a request at court but he'd need to pay a fee to start proceedings. Social services have nothing to do with it and so he won't get very far with them! Tell her not to worry and see if he bothers....Im sure he's just mentioning SS to scare her into doing it, purely to save himself the money for the court application!

[wendygarr]

She has never stopped him from seeing her its been his refusal at first then eventually he started to see her.. but now he wants his name on her certificate , and my daughter dosent want to have it put on .. so we were wondering can she be forced to do so.. I did read that it was her dissision if he didnt go with her to register the birth and because there not married he has no rights to have it put on

[bellediva]

Yes he would have had to have been present when the baby was registered (if unmarried), so your daughter clearly tried at the time. I would just leave him to it and see if he bothers to be honest. Wish I had stuck to my guns at the tine with my child....im going through challenges as my child has diff surname to me...and his dad doesn't see him at all! Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

[PleaseJustShootMeNow]

My understanding is that if it goes to court and he is the father the he will get to have his name added. It's not a question of whether you daughter wants to, only whether he is the father or not. If he's likely to take it to court then she's just delaying the inevitable. But a lot of people shout about going to court but never actually bother.

[WanderingAway]

Why would your daughter not want his name on the birth certificate? Imagine how the child would feel about seeing 'fathers name: blank'

[CrocsAreJustPlainUgly]

Wandering My fathers name on my BC is blank. It didn't make me feel any different then to seeing my mothers on there. She can tell her that she made numerous appointments to register her with her father and he didn't show up, so she had no choice but to register her on her own he then refused contact and to provide for her.

The question should be, why would you refuse contact and to provide if your name isn't on the BC because you didn't show up numerous times. His name not being on there doesn't effect his visitation unless, like he is. He stops it!