Legal Question in Family Law in United Kingdom
What is my 'real' name?
My mother had a relationship with a married man of which I was the product. That was 1951. Father did not tell his wife about me. He is alive and living in USA. We are in occasional contact. My mother met a British man and married him when I was 13 months old. This man informed me that he had never adopted me nor considered it. The first year of my life my mother put me into a convent/orphange. She changed her mind and collected me. Somehow, the British man's name is on my birth certificate although she did not meet him until 13 months after I was born. She married him 6 weeks after meeting him. I would like to know what is my 'real' legal name? My mother's maiden name. The British husband of hers? My biological father's name?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: What is my 'real' name?
This is indeed an unusual situation. There is no legal definition as such of a person's ' real ' name as a person is entitled to call himself whatever he wishes. The short answer to your question is therefore that your real name is the name by which you now call yourself and have always call yourself.
This does not however resolve the problem with your birth certificate which is obviously incorrect. Whether it would now be possible to obtain the necessary evidence to rectify this, and whether it really matters after all this time is another matter.
Andrew Dutton
Legal-Zone
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