I want to know if it is possible for me to sign the birth certificate?
I'm not going to go through the whole story, but my girlfriend is 39 weeks and 2 days into her pregnancy now. Things are confusing, it's either my baby, or another guys.. We are going to try to get a paternity test to sort that out, but regardless of who's baby it is, I want to sign the birth certificate, I love my girlfriend, I'll be proposing to her soon, and I love the baby like my own, even if there's a possibility she isn't... But the thing is, I want to know if I can sign the birth certificate, I want to so much, my girlfriend wants me to sign it too.. Also, we live in Arizona..
Can I get some help in understanding this?
In another question I asked, someone answered with a link to a .pdf file CSE-1043APAM-PD (https://www.azdes.gov/InternetFiles/Pamphlets/pdf/CSE-1043APAM-PD_english.pdf ) . Basically, my girlfriend's pregnant, there's a possibility of the baby not biologically mine. Both of us want me to have legal rights to the baby, so I need some help in understanding a line from that file.
If the mother is not married at the time of birth, a judge can declare a
Man the legal father of a child after judicial proceedings. (Page 2)
Now, does this mean I can have legal rights of the baby? Could somebody please help explain?