Birth Certificates: Registry Office and Children Cases

birth certificates: But when the two men returned to Milan with their newborns, a clerk at the registry office refused to transcribe the babies' birth certificates, barring the men from registering the boys as their legal children, according to The Waterloo Record. Cases like this have happened before in Italy, where surrogacy is illegal and Italian couples face problems in having babies born to surrogates abroad legally recognized as their own. The babies were the sons of a gay Italian couple who had used in vitro fertilization to have children. What's not common is the decision a court in Milan issued last week despite being twins, the court said, the two boys aren't brothers. The couple has decided to remain anonymous to preserve their privacy and the Italian media is not publishing their names. After the clerk's refusal, the couple in Milan had sued to be allowed to register as their children's parents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.