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Procedure & implication of changing parents' name in birth certificate


08-Jul-2023 (In Documentation Law)
Is it possible to change father's or mothers name in birth certificates issued after 2005? Is this process complicated? If a person has changed the name now, how will it get the same changed in educational certificates? If that's not possible or unable to change, how will that person prove that those documents belong to him only? Will the name change create any problems in future job applications? After name and religion change in all documents, will the person be able to claim his property from his father?
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Answer #1
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You can get the name changed under
Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
Sec 15.Correction or cancellation of entry in the register of births and deaths

which states that: If it is proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar that any entry of a birth or death in any register kept by him under this Act is erroneous in form or substance, or has been fraudulently or improperly made, he may, subject to such rules as may be made by the State Government with respect to the conditions on which and the circumstances in which such entries may be corrected or cancelled, correct the error or cancel the entry by suitable entry in the margin, without any alternation of the original entry, and shall sign the marginal entry and add thereto the date of the correction or cancellation.

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