Dear PAO,

My fiancé and I are preparing our requirements for our church wedding in November next year. It was only now that he found out that he carries his mother’s surname as his last name in his Certificate of Live Birth. His baptismal certificate and school documents reflect his father’s surname, however, and he never really got hold of his birth certificate until recently, so he has been using his father’s surname all along. His parents were never married, but they remain civil with each other to this day. His aunt said he could just go to the civil registry of Pasig, the city where he was born, and submit the private handwritten instrument made by his father where he is being acknowledged so that his father’s surname will reflect in his birth certificate, but the employee from the civil registry said that he needs to go to court because he was born in 2001. Please enlighten us.

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