Parental rights

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Quick question from looking at another thread. My DSC was born in 2001, parents weren't married but both on birth certificate. Do they both have parental rights?

I don't think any big decision have come up tbh, just the normal ones and DH is confident in mum, and she normally tells him all these things anyway. The only thing that would matter to him is if something were to happen to either of them. And at the age Dss is, I wonder if it's even worth it now. Won't be long till he's an adult

Ah well in that case no I wouldn't bother

I just don't understand why anyone wouldn't want parental rights though? I'm not having a dig, and I suppose if your dp is comfortable with the scenario as it is, then it's up to him...but I genuinely don't get why you wouldn't bother.
Mind you, I have a will and a power of attorney, and it baffles me that other people haven't bothered to sort those things out too.
Everything is fine.....until one day it's not.

Dumpylump - I think for my ex it's a mixture of:

• Feeling that he is the secondary parent, and that the DCs are fundamentally my responsibilty, not his
• Trusting my parenting and not envisaging a major conflict
• Trusting my DH and my family to ensure he has custody/access as he wants if anything happened to me
• General inertia/lazyness about completing the necessary paperwork.

As far as I'm aware, the mother has more rights than the father if the child was born out of wedlock, even if both parents are on the certificate. For example, the mother can stop the father taking the child out of the country, but not the other way wrong.

Keri - that's not correct. It would depend on who the child lived with, whether there was a residence order, and how long they were taking them for. But the mother doesn't have any more rights than the father for children born after 2003 just because she's female (as long as the father is named on the birth certificate)