Birth Certificates

The Iowa Department of Public Health manages the records for births, deaths and marriage records. Vital record requests are restricted to certain individuals. Copies of the documents can be ordered online, in person or by mail. Certain records can be viewed at the County Recorder's Office, where the birth occurred. Using the free website below "Iowa Vital Statistics Directory" you can find a direct link to Iowa's Bureau of Health Statistics and also links to certain County Recorder's Office's labelled "Vital Records."

Dependent on any state or country's law's modifications or provisions regarding the same, signing a birth certificate is admission of paternity and confers all rights, responsibilities and obligations of the same.

Apply to "Vital Statistics" in your State (under births/deaths) and you may be able to get the forms online. Go to: www.google.com then type in "Forms for Birth Registration in the State of ____________." Good luck Marcy * When the father does not sign the birth certificate at the time of birth the court will require a notarized affidavit from the father acknowledging his paternity before the birth certificate can be amended. If the father does not wish to comply, the birth mother must file a petition with the court to order a paternity test.

Vital documents are often lost or destroyed and need replacing. You need to apply for a replacement birth certificate at your local vital statistic office and provide alternative identification.

Yes, you can call your son "Junior" if you are the 2nd. Your son would also be also the 3rd. Presumably your father, the 1st, is no longer living so you are the "Senior." If your father is the 1st and is still living, then he is the "Senior" and you are the "Junior." You and your son cannot both be "Junior" at the same time.

You cannot use your birth certificate to reenter the US. You can use a drivers license if it is an "enhanced" drivers license and you are entering by land or sea. If you are entering by air, then you must have a passport.

It depends upon a lot of factors - where you live, rather or not the mother is agreeable to his name being placed on the birth certificate, if there is already a father listed on the birth certificate, if the mother was married to someone else at the time she gave birth, etc., etc.

Yes. Birth records less than 100 years old and Affidavit of Parentage records filed in the Central Paternity Registry are restricted documents and you must prove eligibility in order to request one. They will accept current valid driver's license, state-issued photo identification card or passport. For persons age 15-20, current student photo ID with either report card or transcript.

Yes, on numerous occasions. The birth certificate, showing the president was in fact born in Hawaii, has been verified by two governors, a number of fact-checking websites, all the major cable channels (including Fox News), the doctor who delivered him, and assorted people who knew the Obama family when they lived in Honolulu. Despite that, there is a group of people called "Birthers" who refuse to accept the well-documented fact that the president was born in the United States. I enclose the link to his long-form birth certificate.

See the related link for a copy of it. It looks like a typical birth certificate from

the state of Hawaii. The official long form version of his birth certificate can be viewed at the link to the website, Fight the Smears, below.

ABSOLUTELY! DO NOT DO IT! As tempting as it may seem it is against the law and odds are you WILL be caught. Most states require the signature to be notarized so that would ONLY be possible if the notary was willing to risk charges as well and notarize the fraudulent signature

the first death certificate was issued in 1898.

Not in Georgia. It has to have the raised seal. Don't know about anywhere else.

It depends on was the father's name on the birth certificate to begin. But usually yes as a friend of mine just adopted two children and the biological parents names are on the birth certificate and they both terminated their rights to the children. A persons name remains the same on their birth cirtificate until they legally change it, or if they are a minor, their parent legally changes it. If the father has given up his legal rights, he has given up any legal decision making for this child until they are 18. The child will have their birth name until their mother changes it legally.

No. The State is the legal record keeper of birth certificates.

Yes, as long as it is the biological father's name.

Yes, until the father has established his paternity and arranged for a custody hearing if he wants custody.

Generally, if the parents are unmarried the mother has sole custody and control in most states until the father can establish his paternity. Remember, a child's mother can always be identified by medical records. Since the father didn't give birth and he was not legally married at the time of the birth he must establish his paternity by signing the birth certificate at the time of birth (waiving DNA testing rights) which must be done with mother's consent. If he doesn't sign the birth certificate then he must seek another way to establish his paternity and that is done through a DNA test. A paternity test can be arranged through the court. Once paternity has been established the father can request visitations, custody or the court will set up a schedule of regular child support payments for the child if she is to remain in the custody of her mother.

You can get a copy of a California birth certificate by sending payment with an application to the California Office of Vital Records. An authorized copy can only be obtained by the individual in question, the parents of the individual, or certain people entitled by law to it. To get an authorized copy, you must have the application notarized. Otherwise, you can only obtain an informational copy.

You can also obtain a copy of a California birth certificate by contacting the County Recorder's Office in the county in which the birth occurred.

For the application and further information, see the link below.

Yes, if he can establish his paternity legally through a DNA test. Once his paternity is established he can petition for visitation or custody and if the mother retains custody she can request a child support order. A father's parental rights do not depend on the name of the child only on the biological relationship.

Lost? go to the police and file it lost, Go to the local government office and get a replacement. Need a certified copy? Go to the local government office with the original and get a legalized copy. No original and need a certified copy? Well then just stroll on in to the central post office and ask for some help "Waarmerking" But to get a certified copy like most other countries would have? That is the true mystery?

No, this is why the birth certificate does not hold up in court when the father seek paternal rights because it is not fool proof by showing DNA. If you are not married I strongly recommend you get it done though before he signs. Only the biological father is allowed to sign it and if you know the one signing it is not the father, you are committing fraud.

Yes. He certainly does. He has a birth certificate that has repeatedly been verified as legitimate, and that shows he was in fact born in Hawaii in 1961.

no a passport