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My daughter was born during the time of my marriage, but she is not his biological child. Because she was born in wedlock, my ex-husband was given joint custody instead of her biological dad who is and has been in the picture and a part of her life. I am currently living with her biological dad and my ex-husband still has joint physical and legal custody and pays child support. He does see her during his scheduled times. I recently changed her birth certificate to reflect her biological father and in the process we changed her last name to that of her biological father rather than my ex-husband's name. My ex is very mad and said I did it illegally. I contacted the State of Michigan where we live and had all the necessary paper work I needed to do the birth certificate and name change. Can he make me change her name back to his even if we have the DNA test and the divorce decree says she was "not a product of the marriage"? No one in our state can tell me for sure as this is a unique case. I don't want my ex to give up any of his rights, but I do want my daughter to have her biological fathers name as she knows him as her daddy.