How do I get my original name back? Must I pay when I did not give permission?
I recently went to obtain a copy of my birth certificate in my home town of nyc. However when I got there I was told that there wasn't any birth records with my name. I was also told that my last name was changed to father's without my consent or my moms. When I asked how they said well if he paid any kind of child support they automatically change the last name. What I would like to know is is that legal? My whole life is under one name. To find out at the age of 24 that my name is changed is very upsetting. Do I have to pay to change my name back when neither my mom or myself gave permission for my name to be changed? And how do I go about correcting my name to its original?
Comment on AK lawyer's post
I promise you I did not misunderstand. That is exactly what the lady and her supervisor said to me. Mind you I have the original birth certificate with my original name and the new one with his name. Problem is they told me that my original one no longer exist because of the new one. One of my questions is how does this happen when he isn't even listed on my original birth certificate? All I want is my original birth certificate to be of use. My whole life is under one name to find that a new one exist after 20+ years is crazy. I haven't even been able to obtain my passport because everything is under one name and my birth certificate is under another. And I have my original however its under poor condition and either wy the people at the public records place say my original one no longer exist so I can't use that to apply even if I wanted to
Comment on ScottGem's post
I have my original birth certificate and the new one one. The original is just in poor condition which prompted me to get a new one as well as the fact that I need a passport that I can't obtain due to the name problems however all of my things are under my original name such as my ssc my state id my schhol and hospital records everything is under my original name. And there was never a custody case. I just feel like why should I have to pay to amend it when I had nothing to do with it being changed in the first place and neither did my mom. Another question is even if they did amend it without permission why didn't they issue a new copy automatically once the change was made? So that my mom and I would have had knowledge of the change and then took proper action to change it then