There are many situations where a person is allowed to remove the father's identification from a birth certificate in Kenya.
To omit a parent's name from the certificate, the court requires evidence supporting the request, such as DNA test results and proof that the information on the original certificate was incorrect.
According to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, the registrar has a duty to maintain a register of births and a register of deaths, entering the prescribed particulars of every birth and death notified to them.
Under the Act, no one should be registered as the father except either at the joint request of both parents or upon the production of evidence, as required by the registrar, proving that the father and mother were legally married or married according to recognised custom.
