For decades, California law has required adult adoptees to petition the courts and show “good and compelling cause” to access ...

Ms. Finney Boylan is the author of the forthcoming “Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.” My wife was the one who told me that the birth certificate for Baby Girl Boylan had finally arrived ...

Getting a birth certificate or marriage certificate was once a time-consuming task that required multiple visits to municipal ...

The project aims to strengthen the civil registration systems of the concerned councils by upgrading and modernizing their ...

A birth certificate is one of the most important legal documents issued by the government to officially record a person’s birth details. It serves as proof of identity, age, and citizenship and is ...

An injunction kept the state from enforcing a law that one LGBTQ+ legal advocacy group called “out of step with the rest of ...