New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday said that every child has the right to use the name of the mother’s family and a father cannot impose his will in this matter.
“A father does not have a daughter to dictate that he must only use the family name.
If a little daughter is happy with her family’s name, what is your problem?” The court was observed.
Already heard a request by a child’s father who looked for instructions to the authorities to have a family name, and not his mother, reflect the Daughter’s ID document.
“All children can use the mother’s family name, relief, justice Rekha Palli refuses to get through all directions and wonder why the father moves in such a way.
The court says every child has the right to use his family name and his mother’s court cannot be mixed Hands in these matters to force the will of father to a child against his desire.
During hearing, the advice of the man proposed that his daughter was small and could not decide on the problem itself, and that the child’s family name was changed by his outdoors.
He claimed that he claimed Name changes will make it difficult to use insurance claims from insurance companies because the policy was taken on behalf of the girl with his father’s family name.
But the court refused this as a concern and called the petition “wrongly subject to”.
However, throwing the petition that gave the freedom to the man to approach school his daughter for Receive its name in the school record as the Father.
Father cannot force children to use family names: Delhi HC
