Legal Opinion
(1974)
Wisconsin Attorney General Reports
Decided October 7, 1974Published
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT P. RUSSELL, Corporation Counsel, Milwaukee County
You have inquired as to the surname to be given a child born to an unmarried couple on the child's birth certificate. You mention that some of the mothers in Milwaukee County plan to marry the children's fathers but cannot do so because the putative fathers are under the minimum marriageable age. They and the putative fathers wish to give their children the same surnames as those of the putative fathers on the children's birth certificates. You indicate that because of an informal opinion from this office, dated December 5, 1969, the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity HospitalSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Smith v. . United States Casualty Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1910
- Slawek v. StrohWisconsin Supreme Court · 1974
- Rothstein v. Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin & Upper MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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