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title: "Birth Registration and Paternity Establishment — Entries and Documents"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/civil-law-en/birth-registration-paternity-en"
field: "Civil Law"
description: "Birth registration and paternity establishment in Georgia: documents, parents entry, deadlines and adoption secrecy. Legal.ge."
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Birth Registration and Paternity Establishment — Entries and Documents

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## Birth Registration and Confirming Documents

Birth is a fact of legal significance subject to mandatory registration by the organ of registration of civil acts. For the purposes of birth registration, the documents confirming a birth are: a medical certificate of birth; a decision of an authorized organ on the establishment of a fact of birth of legal significance at a certain time and in certain circumstances; and a birth-confirming document issued by an authorized organ of another state on the basis of the legislation of that same state.

The head of a medical facility, or a person authorized by them, is obliged to submit the medical certificate of birth to the Agency exclusively in electronic form. In the cases provided for by the joint order of the Ministers of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs and of Justice of Georgia, the medical certificate of birth may be submitted in material form. Thus, in the ordinary course of events parents do not have to take care of the certificate — it is transmitted electronically from the facility itself.

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### Within what period is the registration of paternity establishment carried out?

Within 1 working day from the submission of the application. On the basis of a court decision, the court sends the decision to the registration organ within 5 working days from its entry into force, after which the organ performs the registration and amends the birth entry.

### Is a child deemed to have originated from married parents after the father's death?

Yes. In the case of the father's death, the child is deemed to have originated from the married parents if it was born no later than 10 months from the father's death.

### Is the death of a stillborn child registered?

No. The birth of a stillborn child is registered under the ordinary procedure, but the death registration is not carried out, and the stillborn child's name and surname are not indicated in the birth entry.

### How does the law protect the secrecy of adoption?

Registration data are released only with the consent of the biological parent, the adopter and the adult adoptee, except in cases directly provided for by law; to protect secrecy, even the data about the adoptee may be changed by a court decision.

### Which documents confirm a birth?

A medical certificate of birth, a decision of an authorized organ establishing a birth fact of legal significance, and a confirming document issued by an authorized organ of another state.