Legal Question in Family Law in Pennsylvania

Re: godparents

A godparent's duty is to assure that the child has a religous up bringing. Yet other than church law there is nothing to enforce that duty. So if a godparent neglected that duty you can NOT sue them.

So under secular law there really isn't a person as a godparent and no document can be drafted to create such a position.

Could you pick someone and call them godparent? Sure but its not a title based on secular law so if you're not doing it for religous purposes why do it.

I'm curious as to why you asked the question so please contact me.

{John}