LAWS 3804 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Birth Certificate, Fax, De Facto

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Laws 3804 week 5 october 6, 2014. Review (not yet discussed) domestic contracts: maybe in cohabitations you would want a contract. Filiation legally establishes a link between child and child parents: determines inheritance and name rights, determines who makes decision about child"s upbringings, etc, no longer sufficient in connoting relationships. Overview of how legal parentage was established around world. United nations convention on the rights of the child. Established by either operation of the law, voluntary acknowledgement. A woman who gives birth is automatically legal mother. A man is presumed as father if born during his marriage. Extends to unmarried male cohabitant of birth mother under certain conditions. If the birth occurs in a hospital, the hospital requires the completion of the birth registration. In nwt, both parents must sign in marriage. In qb, one parent must sign if married, both if not married. For many reasons: significant emotional ties, child is native person.

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