Quote Originally Posted by mrsfrivolity
When a child's birth is registered, it is by law that the child bears the father's surname. This means, a marriage certificate would have to be produced. UNLESS, the child's parents are not married in which case, the child will automatically bear the mother's surname.........

...........What I can't help asking now is ... are you not bothered at all that she is ready to leave her child behind?
My wife has her fathers surname, even though her mum has never been married. He was American military, and dissappeared when she was eight years old. This proves the inconsistency of rules and regulations in the PI, though that was 30 years ago.

I also find it hard to get my head around the Filipino penchant foir farming their kids out to relatives and neighbours as and when convenient. My wife was raised for several years by her aunty, while her mum was busy working, but then later on her mum was raising the aunties kid for several years, while she was working. They swap and change so often no wonder some of the paperwork gets messed up.