Under the Act on Registration of Family Relations, what does a detailed certificate show that an ordinary certificate of the same type does not?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file of this kind, the application for issuance shows which certificate type was requested, and the certificate as issued shows which items were actually recorded. The underlying registry record matters because it shows whether a marriage, divorce, adoption, dissolution or child exists beyond the ones the ordinary certificate lists.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading sets out the additions item by item: a detailed family relation certificate adds all children, a detailed basic certificate adds nationality acquisition and restoration, a detailed marriage certificate adds marriage and divorce, and the detailed adoption certificates add adoption and dissolution, each on top of everything the ordinary certificate of that type already records.
Another reading notes a limit written into the ordinary family relation certificate: it records a spouse and only the surviving children of the current marriage, so a child who has died or a child outside that marriage is not on its face, and only the detailed certificate's addition of all children puts that child before the reader; which certificates may be issued as specified certificates is left to Supreme Court Rules.
Your judgment
Where a child omitted from the ordinary certificate is the fact in issue, what in the registry record would let that child's entry be tested against the detailed certificate?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We revisit this card if the Supreme Court Rules made under this provision change which certificates may be issued as specified certificates or what an applicant may select for them, or if the listed additions to the detailed certificates are amended.