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To: DiogenesLamp
If Obama was adopted by Soetoro, he could petition the court to ‘correct’ his last name, reflecting whatever name he wants.

However, the legal parents (by birth or adoption) on a corrected/amended BC would still remain the same.

It is probable the grandparents became the official guardians of obama (as opposed to adoption). A legal formality rich with documentation, but the paperwork is out of our reach.

88 posted on 03/01/2012 5:50:57 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
If Obama was adopted by Soetoro, he could petition the court to ‘correct’ his last name, reflecting whatever name he wants.

However, the legal parents (by birth or adoption) on a corrected/amended BC would still remain the same.

One would think so, but I am not so certain. In any case, the two newspaper advertisements indicate that those names are what were being used in 1961 anyway. It doesn't bother me to think they were the original names put on his original birth certificate, I just doubt that Stanley was there when the paperwork was initiated.

It is probable the grandparents became the official guardians of obama (as opposed to adoption). A legal formality rich with documentation, but the paperwork is out of our reach.

This is likely true in ordinary cases, but it appears that Obama was the adopted son of a foreign national. It may have required a defacto adoption to straighten out his citizenship issues. I'm sure it was a legal tangle back in 1971.

149 posted on 03/02/2012 5:57:12 AM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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