Legal Question in Family Law in Pennsylvania

Re: February 29th 1956 Birth Certificates

You asked about any legal reason why a birth certificate for a leap day baby would appear as February 28 or March 1.

Yes, seems to happen all the time thanks to the patronizimg attitude of doctors, nurses and even the state. Birth certificates are official docuents but are not sacrosanct. It's been know to happen that they have errors, omissions and in at least one instance a purposefully empty birth YEAR.

The birth certificate was probably fudged to make life easier for the child. Some people erroneously believe that leap day babies can actually count only the years, when they have birthdays. Not true. A birthday is the 356th day after the prior birthday, whether it is a leap year or not. So if it isn't a leap year you should correctly be celebrating on March 1.

But no law says you can't lie about how many birthdays you have actually had.

See: http://leapzine.com/birthcirtificates.htm

Regards,

Roger Traversa

Email: [email protected]

PS - When your freind does her schtick about your birthday, just interject, "Excuse my freind, she must be a Taurus, cause she's so full of bull____." RT