If a father signs the birth certificate of a child in the UK, is he seen as the legal father?

[Holly2234 66]

This question probably doesnt belong anywhere on this forum but somebody may know!

My daughter was born on March 4th 2011. She was born in Nottingham England and her father and I were both on the birth certificate. Her father (USC) and i (British Citizen) married on July 1st 2011. Her birth certificate was amended to show my married name. (I still have both copies).

We now live in the US and divorce proceedings began in November 2013. I chose to deviate on the child support rules which i am entitled to do. I do not want child support. But the judge doing the divorce decided to send it to court to double check i wasnt being mistreated (fair enough). When i got there yesterday, March 10th 2014, the judge (a different one from the divorce) said that paternity had not been established. Even though her father swore in the US embassy in London that he was to gain her citizenship, he did the same in the court house here in New York when the custody agreement was established and he said to the judge that he has no question about her being his child.

Basically, in the end after a lot of ####### talk from a judge who had no idea what he was doing since i appear to be the first foreign person he has seen in his small town joke of a court room, he asked me to provide a copy of a British law stating that a father signing the birth certificate is admitting that he is the parent.

And all of this basically equals out to "Please prove that he is the father so that you can deny child support from him". Sensible right?!

Anyway, my question is, does anybody have any links that could show this or explain it further to a judge who has no clue about anything other than what is under his nose in "normal" cases?

I have also looked into the DNA test route but New York has some awkward rules about it and it has to be ordered by the judge, which it was not, or a physician, which it will not be.

[TJsMomSarah 5]

This may be helpful?

https://www.gov.uk/parental-rights-responsibilities/who-has-parental-responsibility