The Law Firm successfully registered foreign adoption at the registry office.
The facts were as follows. The mother of the child immigrated to the USA with a child. There was an adoption trial before an Oregon court. The child’s father agreed to be adopted and the child was adopted by his mother’s husband – a US citizen. The child took the mother’s husband’s surname. The American court’s ruling became final.
In Poland, however, the child’s biological father was still included as the father in the child’s birth certificate, and the child’s mother’s husband did not have any rights to the child. The child was also found in the registers under the previous name. The idea was to enter the mother’s husband as the child’s father in the register of marital status. This could be done in two ways – either a new child’s birth certificate should be entered with the mother’s husband as a father, or mentioned in the child’s existing birth certificate. Because the US court ruling did not specify exactly how the case was to be resolved, the second solution was adopted and a mention was made of the change of name and new father. From now on, the abridged copies of the child’s birth certificate include only the mother’s husband as the child’s father and the child bears his surname. All child documents will now also be issued in the child’s new name.