AIBU to find a lawyer for my nephew whose pregnant girlfriend says she doesn't want him on the birth certificate?

[Hillfarmer]

My lovely 35-year old nephew is in a very stormy relationship. He and his GF already have one DC of 18 months. She is pregnant again, due August - we could debate the rights and wrongs of that until the cows come home - but we are where we are. They have just had an almighty bust-up, she's kicked him out of the house and now telling him she won't have him on the birth certificate.

He is a devoted Dad and would be devastated not to have parental rights from the get-go, but what can he do? Are there any family lawyers on here who know whether he can force her hand in some wayl? Are there any legal means he can use before the baby is born - say, get an injunction?

He is named on the birth cerficate of his first DC and of course wants to be named on the second one's birth cert. If he's not on it, I understand that it will be much more of a fight to get access etc.

Any advice welcome!

I don't know why you're surprised, the majority of MN is completely against men having any sort of rights to their children because all men are awful you know 🙄

After I posted I didn't ask myself whether I was really surprised. I think I'm just surprised that's it's SO many absolutely adamant posts that the pregnant woman is in the right here. It really gives a distorted view.

TBH I doubt that OP is a reliable narrator. She will see the very best in her nephew and the very worst in the mother of his children and she has only heard her nephew's side.

I presume that her nephew has his own parents who can support and advise him without the un-asked for meddling from his aunt who sounds overbearing and very hostile towards her nephew's pregnant ex-girlfriend.

I don't doubt there's 2 sides here. But fundamentally that doesn't change the fact that posters are championing excluding a father from a birth certificate as a power play, and that's pretty reprehensible.

I'm sure there will be lots of speculation about what the nephew has done to deserve this but really the narrative isn't that there's been something heinous, so unless we have reason to believe otherwise, the automatic stance that the mother should be encouraged to do this is awful.

A friends son had a DNA-test, found a solicitor, and is now on his daughters birth certificate, and a new birth certificate was issued, over and above the birth mothers objections.

I guess a Family Law Solicitor is the way to go.

Mind your own business, OP. Why bother asking if you didn't want answers?