Surname change child - redetermination of the birth name
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzYou can change the name of your child if you do not exercise joint custody with the other parent until after the birth.
You can submit the declaration of name change at any registry office. You must have it certified either by a notary or a registrar. The declaration becomes effective as soon as it reaches the registry office.
You will receive a certificate of the name change.
The marriage register and the birth register are updated.
The registry office is responsible.
- child already has a name
- Joint custody of the parents is only established afterwards
- if the child is 5 years or older: consent of the child
- Birth certificate of child (with official translation if necessary)
- Identity cards or passports
- Marriage certificate or
- Proof of guardianship
In individual cases, further documents may be required. You can enquire about these at the registry office.
The new birth name must be determined within 3 months of the establishment of joint custody of the child.
If you or your spouse or child do not speak German, you must call in an interpreter at your own expense.
Your responsible office:
Stadt Frankenthal (Pfalz) - Abteilung Standesamt
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzAdress data
Address
67227 Frankenthal (Pfalz)
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Building access
Contact
Telephone
Fax
Website
Opening hours
Monday to Tuesday 08:00 - 12:00
Thursday to Friday 08:00 - 12:00
Thursday 14:00 - 18:00
To use our service point, please take a ticket at the entrance. There may be longer waiting times.
You can book appointments with registrars online via: www.frankenthal.de/onlinetermin. For matters that cannot be booked online, please contact us at standesamt@frankenthal.de or 06233/89-888. A consultation is usually necessary before making an appointment.
All opening hours of the Frankenthal City Administration can be found atwww.frankenthal.de/offen
Contact person
Address
67227 Frankenthal (Pfalz)
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Telephone
Fax
Website
room
Responsible for:
- Frankenthal (Pfalz):
- Apply for a birth certificate
- Apply for a certificate of no impediment
- Apply for a death certificate for a family member
- Apply for a mortuary passport
- Certify birth abroad
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the name of spouses
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the naming of civil partners
- Church tax
- Conversion of a civil partnership into a marriage
- Family Book
- Family name change based on the declaration of displaced persons, ethnic German repatriates, their spouses and descendants
- Family name change child - by single parent
- Family name change child - declaration of connection
- Funeral realization
- Issue a marriage certificate
- Leaving the church declaration
- Marriage consummation
- Maternity recognition
- Name change
- Name declaration in marriage in the absence of domestic civil status entry
- Notarizing a death abroad
- Printout from the birth register
- Recognition of paternity
- Register marriage
- Registration of a burial
- Registration of a cremation
- Registration of a forced burial
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Request multilingual form for death certificate
- Show Death
- Show birth
- Show home birth
- Subsequent certification of a marriage contracted abroad
- Surname change child - redetermination of the birth name
- Surname change child - renaming
- resume one's birth name