Service Finder
Redetermine surname of the child
Service Description
You can change the name of your child if you have declared joint custody with the other parent only after the birth.
Process flow
- The declaration of the child's name change can be submitted to any registry office. The validity of the submitted name declaration is checked by the registry office that keeps the birth register for the child. From there you will receive a certificate of the name change or a new birth certificate.
- For the new determination of the child's family name, the custodial parent and, if the child is over 14 years old, also the child must appear in person at the registry office.
Who should I contact?
You can submit the declaration of your child's name change at any registry office. The validity of the submitted name declaration is checked by the registry office that keeps the birth register for the child. From there you will receive a certificate of the name change or a new birth certificate.
Requirements
- Child already has a name
- joint custody of the parents is established only afterwards
- if the child is 5 years or older: consent of the child
Which documents are required?
- Child birth certificate (with official translation, if necessary)
- Identity cards or passports
- Marriage certificate or
- Proof of custody
In individual cases, further documents may be required. You can ask for these at the registry office.
What are the fees?
The new determination of a child's surname costs €25.00 in Thuringia. A newly issued birth certificate showing the change of name costs €10.00.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
The new birth name must be determined within 3 months after the establishment of joint custody of the child.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Technically approved by
Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
Professionally released on
30.08.2022
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
Competent Authority
Stadtverwaltung Gotha - Abt. Standesamt
Address
Hauptmarkt 1
99867 Ülleben
99867 Ülleben
Parking spaces
Parking Place
Bürgeraue
Fees: no
Bürgeraue
Fees: no
Parking Place
Hospitalgasse
Number: 72
Fees: no
Hospitalgasse
Number: 72
Fees: no
Building access
Employees
Frau Köllner
Responsible for
- Gotha:
- Applying for subsequent certification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Burial
- Certify acknowledgement of paternity
- Change surname of a child by naming
- Change surname of a child by single custodial parent
- Change surname of spouses
- Change surname of the child by declaration of affiliation
- Change surnames of expellees, late repatriates, their spouses or descendants
- Change surnames of registered civil partners
- Civil partnership certificate issuance
- Death - show
- Death abroad Notarization
- Death abroad Notarization of Germans without domestic residence
- Death abroad Notarization of deaths on sea-going vessels
- Family book
- First names change order
- Have birth abroad retroactively certified
- Have foreign divorce decrees recognized
- Issue certificate of marriageability
- Maternity recognition
- Name declaration of spouses without domestic marriage or marriage registration
- Printout from the birth register
- Public law change of the family name
- Redetermine surname of the child
- Register marriage
- Request birth certificate
- Request death certificate of a relative
- Request marriage certificate
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Resume family name after dissolution of marriage or civil partnership
- Show birth
- Show home birth
- Nesseaue:
- Burial
- Certify acknowledgement of paternity
- Change surname of a child by naming
- Change surname of a child by single custodial parent
- Change surname of spouses
- Change surname of the child by declaration of affiliation
- Change surnames of expellees, late repatriates, their spouses or descendants
- Change surnames of registered civil partners
- Civil partnership certificate issuance
- Death - show
- Death abroad Notarization
- Death abroad Notarization of Germans without domestic residence
- Death abroad Notarization of deaths on sea-going vessels
- Family book
- First names change order
- Have birth abroad retroactively certified
- Have foreign divorce decrees recognized
- Issue certificate of marriageability
- Maternity recognition
- Name declaration of spouses without domestic marriage or marriage registration
- Printout from the birth register
- Public law change of the family name
- Redetermine surname of the child
- Register marriage
- Request birth certificate
- Request death certificate of a relative
- Request marriage certificate
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Resume family name after dissolution of marriage or civil partnership
- Show birth
- Show home birth
- Nessetal:
- Burial
- Certify acknowledgement of paternity
- Change surname of a child by naming
- Change surname of a child by single custodial parent
- Change surname of spouses
- Change surname of the child by declaration of affiliation
- Change surnames of expellees, late repatriates, their spouses or descendants
- Change surnames of registered civil partners
- Civil partnership certificate issuance
- Death - show
- Death abroad Notarization
- Death abroad Notarization of Germans without domestic residence
- Death abroad Notarization of deaths on sea-going vessels
- Family book
- First names change order
- Have birth abroad retroactively certified
- Have foreign divorce decrees recognized
- Issue certificate of marriageability
- Maternity recognition
- Name declaration of spouses without domestic marriage or marriage registration
- Printout from the birth register
- Public law change of the family name
- Redetermine surname of the child
- Register marriage
- Request birth certificate
- Request death certificate of a relative
- Request marriage certificate
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Resume family name after dissolution of marriage or civil partnership
- Show birth
- Show home birth
