Child under age 1
Typographical errors by birthing facility to any item on record |
Parents: Submit copy of birth record with errors identified to ensure accuracy of amendment process.
Examples: Spelling of parent’s name, parent’s date of birth, parent’s place of birth, mother’s address, etc.
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Birthing facility will submit correction to Vital Records.
Vital Records will contact birthing facility. Birthing facility can correct keying errors but cannot make changes from data provided by parents at time of birth. |
No amendment fee
Certificate Fees
Replacement Policy for Certificates |
| Child up to age 21 or until medical record is no longer available |
Correct typographical errors in:
- Child's date of birth
- Child's time of birth
- Child's sex at birth
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Birthing facility will submit correction to Vital Records.
Vital Records will contact birthing facility. Birthing facility can correct errors based on medical record. |
No amendment fee
Certificate Fees
Replacement Policy for Certificates |
| Child age 21 and older when medical record is no longer available |
Correct typographical errors in:
- Adult's date of birth
- Adult's time of birth
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Notarized Birth Correction Affidavit – signature of registrant (person named on record) required.
Dated, original evidence document dated prior to registrant’s 7th birthday to correct date of birth. |
$35 amendment fee
Certificate Fees
Replacement Policy for Certificates |
| Child age 21 and older when medical record is no longer available |
Correct typographical errors in:
For other changes to sex, see the Court Order of Change of Sex page. |
Notarized Birth Correction Affidavit – signature of registrant (person named on record) required.
Dated, original evidence document at least five years old that shows name of person, date of birth or age, and sex required. |
$35 amendment fee
Certificate Fees
Replacement Policy for Certificates |
| Child age 1-17 or under age 1 if hospital cannot correct data based on birth worksheet |
Corrections allowed:
- Correct misspelling of parent name (up to 3 letters)
- Add missing part of parent name
- Add second part of parent surname
- Add or correct parent date of birth, age, or birthplace
- Reverse parent’s first and middle names
- Reverse order of parent’s double last names
- Add or remove hyphen in two-part parent surname
- Add or remove suffix (Jr., II, III, etc.) in parent name
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Notarized Birth Correction Affidavit – signature of one parent listed on record required.
Original evidence document dated prior to the birth of the child whose record is being corrected is required. |
$35 amendment fee
Certificate Fees
Replacement Policy for Certificates |
| Adult age 18 and over |
Corrections allowed:
- Correct misspelling of parent name (up to 3 letters)
- Add missing part of parent name
- Add second part of parent surname
- Add or correct parent date of birth, age, or birthplace
- Reverse parent’s first and middle names
- Reverse order of parent’s double last names
- Add or remove hyphen in two-part parent surname
- Add or remove suffix (Jr., II, III, etc.) in parent name
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Notarized Birth Correction Affidavit – signature of registrant (person named on record) required.
Original evidence document dated prior to the birth of the registrant whose record is being corrected. |
$35 amendment fee
Certificate Fees
Replacement Policy for Certificates |
| All ages |
Change a parent's name with a court order of name change. See the Court Order Name Change page for more details.
Change other items with a court order when original amendment request was denied. |
Original certified copy of court order and written request of parent if registrant is child under age 18. If registrant is over the age of 18, a written request signed by the person named on the record. |
$35 amendment fee
Certificate Fees
Replacement Policy for Certificates |