The Pre-Birth Order
For those who are interested in doing something similar, or who are just interested, here's the language of our pre-birth order, which was signed yesterday:
IN RE: Interest of Unborn Child:
Whozat
Shrike
Petitioners
DECREE
AND now this 26th day of August 2008, upon consideration of the foregoing Petition, it is determined by the Court as follows:
The parties to this action, Whozat and Shrike, are the parents of a child anticipated to be born on or about November 25, 2008, at OurTown Hospital (address), through Petitioner Whozat carrying a fertilized egg from Petitioner Shrike.
It is hereby ordered and decreed that any certified copies of the birth records of said child shall reflect the parentage of Whozat and Shrike whenever parentage appears on such documents. It is further ordered and decreed that this Decree and any other documents filed in the above captioned matter shall be kept under seal to protect the confidentiality of the parties.
That is so cool.
ReplyDeleteHow can it be confidential if is on the birth certificate which one frequently shows to people?
ReplyDeleteAnd why, since you are obviously the parties involved?
It's not the birth certificate or fact that we're her parents that's confidential, but the fact that there were court procedings to say so.
ReplyDeleteThe "sealing" just seems to be part of the boilerplate language that would be used for any adoption or surrogacy (on which our order is modeled), which would certainly be understandable.
Honestly, one on level it does bug me a bit, in that there's nothing about this that I feel the need to hide from anyone - especially Peeper - but on the other hand, it also means that all our various supporting documents are not a part of the public record, which is probably just as well.
That makes sense. It is past wonderful that the court order does the job for the certificate. It is nice that all the supporting documents are private, however.
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