Child Born in USA to American/Taiwanese: Father/Register in Taiwan

Thank you , that’s a relief. Right now actually her father feels better to me than her mother, so I am hoping we can work out a solution. Do I have to worry about registration and ‘entering’ family’s registration? My gf can’t object against her parents, even when they are wrong and we are right, and I worry that my son will be regarded as their “son/grandson” with me having 0 rights and there are legal maneuvers being done that will put them higher in legal custody for the kid??

If a Taiwanese woman has a child out of wedlock with a Taiwanese man, is he not able to put his name in the child’s documents?

Mother can register her child by herself. Taiwanese father can claim his paternity with a proof by a paternity test. Foreign father, I’m not sure yet.

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It’s easy in common law jurisdictions, not so easy in Taiwan.

Name Act: Name Act - Article Content - Laws & Regulations Database of The Republic of China (Taiwan)

Chinese info on this topic

doc file on Tainan city gov site

戶政事務所自得依現行規定辦理該名子女出生及認領登記 - 台南市麻豆區戶政事務所 - 臺南市政府

Article 1065–1070 of Civil Code are on the acknowledgment by father.