Re: CC;AOK
Posted by
Suzanne Sutherland on
Jul 27, 2000; 9:07pm
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/RE-CC-AOK-tp1489003p1489082.html
In message <
[hidden email]>, Deborah A Rorabaugh
<
[hidden email]> writes
>In point of fact - the kids do not automatically change their last names when
>Mom
>remarries, even in the US. Sometimes the kids choose to take their step-dad's
>name
>for school or socially, but unless the kids are actually adopted by their
>step-dad, this is not a legal name change - for insurance, dirver's license,
>etc.
>For the adoption proceedings, the natural father must sign away his parental
>rights. This also means the natural father is no longer obligated to provide
>child
>support and visitation is no longer a right.
>Straker obviously didn't do this.
Well, then, it sounds like the States are pretty much in line with what
happens over here.
My two eldest children are not biologically my husband's children and he
has never adopted them. I have solved the problem by giving *all* my
children my surname as I have kept my name. I guess this is what one
would call a Matriarchal line;-)
And to stay on topic, they have been brought up in the ways of UFO!!!
--
Suzanne Sutherland
aka drdougjackson