My father has been put in a nursing home, and I am the only next of kin. My birth cerificate has my mother's husband's name on it (not my biological father's name) although my father changed my name to his when I was young. Will this be enough to prove that I am his daughter or will I have to have a dna test?

No, legally you are the daughter of the perosn on your birth certificate unless it was changed though the courts or the birthcertificate office.

Merely changing your name is just that, just changing your name.

Now what do you want to prove you are the daughter for, to visit him, to have a say about his medical care, or to inherit.

If anyone contests you being the birth daughter, then you will have to prove with a DNA

no, legally you are the daughter of the perosn on your birth certificate unless it was changed though the courts or the birthcertificate office.

Merely changing your name is just that, just changing your name.

Now what do you want to prove you are the daughter for, to visit him, to have a say about his medical care, or to inherit.

If anyone contests you being the birth daughter, then you will have to prove with a DNA

I want guardianship of my father. Apparently the home assigned him a guardian because there was no one there at the time he became sick, and when I get into town I find out all of this. It seems insane. He has told them that I am his daughter, even the children of the woman that he was married to told them. I want to have a say in my father's affairs, because my step brother's and sister's want nothing to do with him.

I want guardianship of my father. Apparently the home assigned him a guardian because there was no one there at the time he became sick, and when I get into town I find out all of this. It seems insane. He has told them that I am his daughter, even the children of the woman that he was married to told them. I want to have a say in my father's affairs, because my step brother's and sister's want nothing to do with him.


Is he incapable of giving you a Power of Attorney, a Health Proxy, whatever else is required by the nursing home?

That would be the easier way rather than going through a Court proceeding.

Why was a guardian appointed if he's married? Or is he now divorced?