Birth Certificate Modification

Acceptable forms of photo identification are the following.
Birth certificate modification. Since the birth certificate is a legal document appropriate legal requirements must be met to make the correction or change. A parent of the person named on the birth certificate whose name appears on the birth certificate. If you are required to get a court order to legally change or modify your birth certificate youll need to follow these steps. This 15 is waived if you enclose a certified copy of a certificate that has been issued within the past 3 months and you ask to exchange it for 1 corrected certificate.
40 processing fee applies. A birth certificate modification package contains all forms and instructions needed in ascertaining a modification to ones birth certificate record. Biological parents who marry after the birth of a child may have the birth certificate amended to include the name of the father even if already on the record and update the legitimacy status. Birth certificate correctionschanges corrections or changes to a birth certificate may be made in several ways.
Drivers license state identification card passport andor military identification card. Who is eligible to obtain a birth certificate copy. This is a mississippi form that complies with all mississippi codes and statutes. Birth certificate modification package.
If a change needs to be made to the record complete the request with the information. Copies of corrected certificates cost 15 each. Requesting the birth record must identify in the place marked full name at birth the current legally altered name of the subject of the birth record and that name must agree with the information that now appears on the certificate. Name on or for new.
Contact the office of the court that handles name changes local to you. Fill out and submit a petition for a change of name with the correct office. Record modification unit po box 370 trenton nj 08625 0370. The parents must provide proof of the marriage.
The person named on the birth certificate. Vital records has birth records since 1881 for all of new york state except new york city. It does not have these records for new york city the boroughs of manhattan kings brooklyn queens bronx and richmond staten island. Birth records are also available from the local registrar of vital.
Adding a childs given name by family more than 60 days after birth. On your court date. Provide a place for birth parents to file medical information to share with registered adoptees.