[David]

I have to completely disagree with you on this one BP2. Yes the judge would take it off of Stanley Ann's (or her lawyer's word) on the divorce papers that Barack was her child. I personally know of a marriage and divorce where the father was from a different country. There were 3 small children involved and the mother asked for custody but she didn't ask for child support. She knew with the father back in his country it would be impossible to collect. The Judge never questioned the mother in any of the statements she put on her "do it yourself" divorce papers. No Birth Certificates, No DNA nor her Marriage Certificate was ever asked to be put into the divorce records. He took her word for everything she put in those papers. She was awarded full custody. In fact I know of many divorces with under age children and they never ask for copies of Birth Certificates to be filed with the divorce papers.

Nah.

Might happen in a given courtroom before a particular judge who decided he needed to do it that way. But in most jurisdictions, court rule requires a birth certificate for all minor children--not likely to get a judge to back off, particularly in an ex parte case.

[hoosiermama]

I would think it depended on the community:

When I was divorced there was no question about who was who. The lawyers, judge etc were all people that my husband had grown up with and I had all their kids in school. They knew the parties.

[Spunky]

Birth certificates

"Rule 23 “Birth certificates: Providing children’s birth certificates as evidence is not required unless their legitimacy is in dispute. Similarly, photocopies of the parties’ birth certificates are sufficient."

Quebec Divorce Lawyer.com

Can you show me where the law in Hawaii says Childrens Birth Certificates have to be provided in a divorce?