To break the law

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By not re-registering my son's birth after marrying his father who is already named on his birth certificate.

My son is 15 and I've been married to his father for the last 13 years ish. (We've been together for 17 years.)

I've recently found out that you're legally supposed to re-register the birth!

So I've been breaking this law for 13 years and not been caught yet. I don't know what the point of it is other than to make the child 'legitimate' which is just ridiculous in this day and age!

So I think I'll not bother re-registering him and hope I don't get caught. I doubt I'm the only one to have never heard of this law and if they prosecuted people for it then I'm sure I would have heard of it then!

So AIBU not re-registering him?

Oh no, you might get fined £2!!

Yabu if you have other children after you are married but otherwise not so much.

What? I've never heard of this.
So I wasn't married to ds father when he was registered but we married when he was 3. Dh is on birth certificate as his father but we were supposed to re register his birth after we'd married?

www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-to-re-register-a-childs-birth-following-marriage-of-natural-parents

Who knew? I'm also breaking the law!!

The fine for not doing so 'shall not exceed £2'

We didn’t reregister. Couldn’t be armed!

*arsed

We did it. The registrar mis-spelled dd’s name on the re-issued birth cert and WE then had to pay £90 to rectify it

www.ehlsolicitors.co.uk/why-do-you-have-to-re-register-the-birth-of-your-child/

I'm 41 and my mum and dad never re-registered my birth when they married.

My niece was re-registered because the registrar organised it while her mum and dad were sorting their weddding certificate.

So there's actually no point unless you are landed gentry. I don't think I'll bother, partly because I haven't got a clue where my marriage certificate ended up (I think it wasn't returned when I sent it off somewhere but must get a duplicate because h wants a divorce!)

Thanks for the link.

The £2 fine is quite amusing!

So I think I am not being unreasonable. Especially after reading this bit on the link posted above...

In reality, legitimacy has no effect on inheritance as the Family Law Reform Act 1969 gave illegitimate children the right to inherit on the death of a parent.