Due to a recently enacted law in the District of Columbia, there are two specific situations that create legal parents.

If a child is conceived or born during the time in which persons were in a registered domestic partnership, and for some time after, there is a new presumption of parentage. Both persons’ names will automatically go on the birth certificate with all the rights and responsibilities associated with being legal parents. 

A child born to a birth mother and a person who has consented, in writing, to parent a child born of artificial insemination creates a presumption of parentage for the other person. 

CSSD is in the process of revising its forms, procedures and outreach material to reflect the changes with this new law.

Please select the following link to see the entire DC Law No. 18-33, Domestic Partnership Judicial Determination of Parentage Amendment Act of 2009:

DC Domestic Partnership Act*