| Carol,
No help in Georgia, but I was married at the time that I gave birth (in
NH) to my boyfriend's baby. At the hospital, I had the choice of
putting my husband's name or "Father Unknown" on the birth certificate.
The only way to get the real father's name, was an affidavit of
paternity, which had to be signed and notarized by the 3 of us
(husband, boyfriend and myself) and then presented to the clerk w/in
30? days of the birth. Pretty simple, only a little inconvenient.
If you go past that initial period, then it must go to court to be
changed, and is a REAL hassle.
NOTE: The lady filling out the birth certificate was not ABOUT to
volunteer that I could put "father unknown" on my baby's cert. She was
initially pretty adamant that it had to be my husband's name. It
wasn't until I flatly refused to allow his name on it (I didn't want
him to be held at ALL responsible for any sort of support - we'd been
separated for 2 yrs), that she said the other option of "Unknown". It
doesn't seem to be an option they want to "publicize".
Good Luck!
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