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    Exclamation How I Can Change My Child Last Name with Her Father's One

    My question involves name change laws in the State of: New York
    Hello! When I was in the hospital I want to put only my last name to my baby girl because her father was in jail... Now the father still in jail but I change my mind and I want to give her the father's name and declare that he is her natural father... How I can do that and where I have to go to do that and what are all the steps to do that? I live in NYC please help me! Thanks!

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    Default Re: How I Can Change My Child Last Name with Her Father's One

    Only the FATHER can put their own name on a birth certificate. If he wishes to do that, he'll need to either complete an acknowledgment of paternity (if he's still within the time frame to do so), or he'll need to file a paternity action in the courts to have himself made the child's legal parent.

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