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icon - expecting legal largeFact: you may have been there at the baby’s conception – but you’re not officially the father unless your name is on your child’s birth certificate.

As a dad, it’s important that you understand your legal status. Make sure the birth is registered and, if necessary, that your parental responsibility is confirmed…

  • How is the birth registered?

    In Britain, you're free to give your child whatever name you choose. That's not the case everywhere. In New Zealand, for instance, one couple decided to call their son Superman…but only because officials refused to let them call him 4Real.

  • Parental Responsibility: you and the law

    It's how the law recognises you as the legitimate father of your child, so it's worth making sure you've got it. Dad Info explains all...

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