When my husband was a child his Step Mother adopted him after she married his father. His birth mother had died. As far as we can tell they never requested an amended birth certificate for my husband. In 1999 he requested a copy of his birth certificate from Vital Records in Maine and they sent us one with his birth mother's information.
The question is - when providing his birth certificate for purposes of legal identification (apply for passport) who should he list as mother? His adoptive Step Mother says it should be her but the birth certificate states his birth mother.
Is the certificate only amended if requested after the adoption or is it part of the adoption process?

