ext_6761 ([identity profile] adrian-turtle.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] pantryslut 2008-10-12 03:25 pm (UTC)

My understanding is that a birth certificate is a legal document, not a medical document. So the mother's husband, the man who has legal responsibility for the child, is supposed to be named as the father. The customary way to transfer that responsibility is adoption, and there are plenty of precedents where biological fathers adopted children who had other legal fathers presumed at the time of their birth.

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