In re Halohan Petition

Mawhinney, J.,

— The petition filed in this matter seeks an order from this court directed to the bureau of vital statistics in the Department of Health ordering amendment and correction, of the birth certificate of petitioners’ child. As to the facts herein it is sufficient to note that when petitioners’ child was horn in Philadelphia petitioners caused the child’s name to be registered in the bureau of vital statistics incorrectly; that subsequently a request was made of the bureau to correct the birth certificate hut that the bureau refused to do so without a court order.

We initially…