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    Default Removing Mother's Name After Termination of Rights

    My question involves name change laws in the State of: Michigan

    I am posting this for my boyfriend. We have been dealing with this situation for almost 3 years now and it would be great to jump the final hurdle and put this issue to bed.

    My situation is sort of complicated, but I'm hoping I can find some help here. I would like to remove the birth mother's name from 2 daughter's birth certificates. Basically her rights were terminated, voluntarily, after having the kids removed and put in foster care and 15 months of yanking everyone around. I have full 100% custody of my girls. It has been over a year since all of this has been wrapped up and almost 3 since it started. She has never made an attempt at contacting us or trying to use the girls' name's for fraud that I'm aware of, but I would like to have her name removed from their birth certificates for a lot of reasons, but mainly to stop any kind of fraud the psycho may attempt. Regardless, I need to get my butt in gear to get birth certificates and social security numbers for them, but I want to know my options first.

    Thanks for the help.

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    Default Re: Removing Mother's Name After Termination of Rights

    Your boyfriend needs to stop speaking ill of the woman he chose to make babies with if those are in fact his words...

    Secondly, he cannot remove her name from the birth certificate because she is still biologically their mother and without a mother, those children would cease to exist. Also, tell him that a responsible father would have ALREADY had birth certificates and social security cards for his children so he shouldn't throw stones. Nothing stopped him from getting them since the day they were born.

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    Default Re: Removing Mother's Name After Termination of Rights

    Read this and this. The process to change the identity of the children's mother on their birth certificate (at least, the amended version with the original kept under seal) is called "adoption".

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