Co-parenting - registering the birth of a child

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Registering a co-parenting birth

Lesbian couples in a civil partnership – the partner who does not carry the baby can still be registered on the birth certificate as the second parent.

Registrars at the Registry Office will assume that a child is a child of the civil partnership and will not usually question this.

However, if natural insemination has taken place the donor would be entitled to be registered as the father in place of the second parent.