Adding a second female parent's name to a birth certificate
Re-register your child’s birth to add the second female parent’s details to the birth record.
The form you fill in depends on whether:
- you marry or form a civil partnership with the second female parent after your child’s birth was registered
- you’re not married or in a civil partnership but you want the second female parent’s name on the birth record
Check the related guidance for each form to make sure you’re eligible before you apply. The Human Fertilisation and Embroyology Authority (HFEA) has more information on .
Take the completed form to the register office. If you’re not married or in a civil partnership and one of you cannot be there, that person also needs to fill in a ‘Statutory declaration of acknowledgement of parentage’ form and post it to the General Register Office.
Getting a new birth certificate
If you want a new birth certificate you’ll have to order one separately and pay a fee - you do not get one automatically when you re-register the birth.
If there’s been a ‘Declaration of Parentage’
A Declaration of Parentage is when the court decides who the parent of a child is. You do not need to do anything to change the birth record if there’s been a Declaration of Parentage made by a court. The court will tell the General Register Office and the birth will be re-registered. You’ll need to order a new birth certificate if you want one.