IN THE CASE OF UNITED KINGDOM: Legal Requirements For Parental Responsibility! What Is The Case In Your Country/Where You Are?

Parental Responsibility

It is thought that both parents are entitled to parental responsibility as soon as their child is born. Looking that what is going on around the world right now, it is very important to highlight the above to steam away ignorance and get parents and potential parents to do the needful and stop wallowing in ignorance and irresponsibility.

In the case of the United Kingdom, a mother automatically has parental responsibility for her child from birth.

The conditions for a father gaining parental responsibility vary.
If the parents of a child are married to each other at the time of the birth of their child, then
they both have parental responsibility.

Parents do not lose parental responsibility if they divorce.
Where the parents of a child are not married to one another, the mother always has parental
responsibility for her child.

The father of a child has parental responsibility only if he is married to the mother when the
child is born or if he has acquired legal responsibility for his child through one of these three
routes:
1) by jointly registering or re-registering the birth of the child with the mother.
2) by a parental responsibility agreement with the mother
3) by a parental responsibility order, made by a court.

Living with the mother, even for a long time, does not give a father parental responsibility. If the
parents are not married to one another and the father does not have parental responsibility,
parental responsibility does not always pass to the natural father if the mother dies.
All parents have a legal duty to financially support their child, whether or not they have
parental responsibility.