CAN’T REPLACE BIOLOGICAL FATHER’S NAME IN BIRTH CERTIFICATE, RULED BY SESSION’S COURT IN GUJARAT

A Local Court in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) refused to replace the name of a child’s biological father with that of the adoptive father on a birth certificate, saying that it is the ‘legal right of a child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognized by law’. The court passed this order after the adoptive parents had sought a change in the father’s name on the child’s birth certificate after the mother divorced her first husband and remarried. The court further clarified that inserting the name of the adoptive parents is easy and valid in cases of adoption of children who are abandoned by their biological parents.

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