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Correctly complete and notarize VS-8 Form (Declaration of Paternity Affidavit). VS-8 Form must be signed by an authorized Health Department representative. Complete payment information at the bottom of the VS-8 Form. Forward the original VS-8 Form to the Office of Vital Statistics (OVS).

In cases in which a child is born to unmarried parents, the father and mother must both sign an ?Affidavit of Paternity?. Once signed and filed with the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, only then can the father's name added to the child's birth certificate.

You can ask for a copy of the VAP when you sign it. The VAP is usually signed in the hospital after the child is born, but it can also be signed outside of the hospital. You can get the form at your Local Health Department or your Local Child Support Office .

Through the district court in the county where the requesting party lives. The requesting party can be inquired from the child, mother, government lawyer of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, or the alleged father. The case will be decided by a judge and not by jury trial.

There are 2 basic ways that unmarried couples with a baby can establish paternity: both parents can sign a Voluntary Acknowledgement of Paternity (VAP) someone files a paternity lawsuit in district court and the judge decides paternity.

Parents who are not married and who did not have the father's name listed on the birth certificate at the hospital may want to legally establish paternity by completing a paternity affidavit at the Health Department's county health centers.