Mother Did Not Add Husband to Child's Birth Certificate

[Jeffrey Snow]

My question involves civil rights in the State of: SOUTH CAROLINA Why does our great Nation and State not have laws requiring a married mother to the biological father of the child that has been delivered at a hospital in the state of South Carolina not be required that it is the hospital and/or doctor's duty {for that child's right} to require Birth rights to be properly documented for both father and mother on that child's birth certificate ?????
I personally find this fact as a loving and wanting father to be one of the greatest dereliction of duty of the legislative branch of this great Nation and State !!!
"Is it not important to have the love, discipline, and the structure that the father teaches his child?" "As for me I hold these things to be my greatest responsibility."
"Ask yourself this:"
What and how far would you go to be a part of your child's life, and to have the legal right to protect your child no matter what? In the condition that our country and state is in right now; maybe if you would find the time to consider this law it might help the justice system to put the father back into the definition our country calls a family !!!!!!!!
JEFFREY VICTOR SNOW [JUST A FATHER LOOKING FOR HIS CHILD!]

[Dogmatique]

Did you have a legal question?

Married parents DO have equal rights to the child, as soon as the child is born.

[aardvarc]

And married parents have those equal rights even if the husband's name isn't on the birth certificate.

[Dogmatique]

I suspect what OP is actually trying to get across is that folk who have sex with a woman who is married to someone else have to jump through some hoops in order to get their own paternity established

Regardless, it is NOT the hospital's job - and nor should it be - to ascertain parentage or assign any sort of parental rights. If the law in your state says that a married woman's husband is the presumed legal father, then yes - you'll have to jump through some hoops to get that fixed.

(That's if your state allows it - there is at least one where an intact marriage creates an absolute bar to any challenge of the husband's presumed paternity)

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Moral of the story? Don't have sex with folk who are married to someone else.

[jk]

My question involves civil rights in the State of: SOUTH CAROLINA Why does our great Nation and State not have laws requiring a married mother to the biological father of the child that has been delivered at a hospital in the state of South Carolina not be required that it is the hospital and/or doctor's duty {for that child's right} to require Birth rights to be properly documented for both father and mother on that child's birth certificate ?????

actually, I suspect they are required to document exactly what you are demanding, within reason. Of course, if the mother refuses to provide the information as to who the father is and you are not there to provide the needed info, they can't hold the child hostage until mom gives up the info.


dogmatique posted:

I suspect what OP is actually trying to get across is that folk who have sex with a woman who is married to someone else have to jump through some hoops in order to get their own paternity established

from what I read, he is the bio father and was married to the mother. It sounds like he was not put on the BC for some reason. I suspect mom ran away and had the child away from him and did not give up his name and info as father.

[Dogmatique]

If that's the case, I'm still not sure what he wants.

The legislature cannot kidnap Mom and force her to stay where she doesn't want to stay; before the child is born her body is hers and hers alone and there's only one State that has had the cojones to try and bar a pregnant woman from leaving.

(And it's not OP's state)

[jk]

If that's the case, I'm still not sure what he wants.
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the impossible.