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Just when you think your wedding preparations are going along fine, you take a look at the important legal documents and find that your name is misspelled! Before you run to the nearest court, read more about Republic Act 9048, which gives the city or municipal civil registry the authority to correct clerical or typographical errors and change of name or nickname.
Section 1. Authority to correct a clerical or typographical error and change of name or a nickname. – No entry in a civil registry may be amended or corrected without a judicial order, except for clerical or typographical errors and change of name or a nickname that can be corrected or modified, concerned city or municipal registrar or consul general conformity with the provisions of this Act and its implementing rules and regulations.
Section 3. Who can file the petition and where. – Any person having direct and personal interest in correcting a clerical or typographical error in an entry and / or change of first name or nickname in the civil register may file, in person, a verified petition with the local Civil Registry civil city or municipality where registration is sought to be corrected or changed is kept.
If the petitioner has already migrated to another place in the country and would not be practical for such party, in terms of transport costs, time and effort to appear in person before the local civil registrar keeping the documents be corrected or changed, the petition may be filed, in person, with the local civil registrar of the place where they currently reside or have their home. The two (2) local civil registrars concerned shall communicate to facilitate the processing of the request.
The citizens of the Philippines who are currently resident or domiciled abroad may submit their request in person, with the nearest Philippine Consulates.
The petitions filed in the city or municipality of the registrar or the consul general shall be processed in accordance with this Act and its implementing rules and regulations. All requests for correction of clerical or typographical errors and / or change of names or nicknames may be availed of only once.
Section 4. Ground for change of name or a nickname. – The application for change of name or nickname may authorize any of the following cases:
(1) The petitioner believes that the first name or nickname to be ridiculous, tainted with dishonor or extremely difficult to write or pronounce;
(2) The new name or nickname has been habitually and continuously used by the petitioner and has been publicly known by the name or nickname in the community, or
(3) The change will avoid confusion.
Section 5. Form and content of the request. – The request must be in the form of an affidavit, subscribed and sworn before any person authorized by law to administer oaths. The affidavit must establish the facts necessary to establish the merits of the petition and show affirmatively that the petitioner is competent to testify to the problems above. The petitioner must state the particular erroneous entry or entries, which sought to correct and / or change to the treaty.
The request shall include the following documents:
(1) A certified true machine copy of the certificate or the page or record book containing the entry or entries sought to be corrected or changed;
(2) At least two (2) public or private documents showing the entry or entries to be correct in the correction or change basic and
(3) Other documents that the petitioner or the city or municipal civil registry, or the consul general may consider relevant and necessary for the approval of the request.
In case of change of name or a nickname, the petition shall also be financed