2014 Vermont Statutes
Title 18 - Health
Chapter 103 - BIRTH RECORDS
§ 5077 New birth certificate of child of unwed parents who subsequently marry

§ 5077. New birth certificate of child of unwed parents who subsequently marry

(a) A person whose previously unwed parents have intermarried subsequent to his or her birth and whose father has recognized such person as his child may establish his or her legitimacy under the provisions of 14 V.S.A. § 554 and the facts with respect to his or her birth and parentage, and procure the issuance and filing of a new birth certificate by petition to the probate division of the superior court of the district where the child was born.

(b) The probate division of the superior court, after hearing, shall issue a decree setting forth the facts as found and shall transmit a certified copy thereof to the supervisor of vital records registration, who shall prepare a new certificate and transmit it together with the decree and such information as is necessary to identify the original birth certificate, to the clerk of the town where the child was born.

(c) The clerk shall file and index the new certificate in the most recent book of births, shall also index them with births occurring at the same time and shall otherwise comply with the provisions of sections 5080 and 5081 of this title. The new certificate shall contain a notation that it was issued by authority of this chapter, and it shall not contain the word "Amended" or other special designation. (Amended 1979, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 12; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011.)