Change of surname

Hi. My son is 6 years old na po and ung apelido nya is ung sa father nya hiwalay na po kami nung father nung anak ko and hindi sya binbigyan ng financial support. 1 month pa lang ung bata iniwan na sya. Ngayon po nagpa-plano na po kami mag pakasal ng current boyfriend ko and gusto namin gamitin ng anak ko ung apelido nung current boyfriend ko. Possible po kaya yun ?
Thank you in advance

You and your fiance should jointly adopt your child in order for your child to have legitimate status as your child. However, if your fiance adopts your child, you can no longer demand or claim support from the biological father.

Thanks Jadis, by the way how he can adopt my child when we get married? What are those requirements that we need to submit and also what are the process?

The lawyer you will hire will do that for you. By adoption, you will have to file a petition in court and present evidence as to the financial, moral, spiritual and emotional fitness of your husband to adopt your child (as to you, there is no problem, because you will just be raising the status of your child from illegitimate to legitimate), and the court will have to grant that petition. Note that once the petition is successful, the biological father will no longer have visitation rights and will no longer be obligated to support your child.

You will have to prepare money for lawyer's fees, filing fees, publication fees, and appearance fees.

hi, i have the same case like this: please give me a legal advice on this matter.

Im a mother of two, one is 5yrs old and the eldest is 8, both of them are named after their biological father, but we are not married. Now i have been working abroad for 3 yrs already and already married with other nationality. We wanted to fix the kids papers so we can bring them with us for a better future. I have read the family code and adoption process in the philippines and it clearly states there that in order to anyone who is not blood related to the kids will not be eligible to use their last name and the only way to change it is thru ADOPTION PROCESS, both of me (as a biological mother) and my legal husband will file a petition to adopt the kids, we were informed of an inter-country adoption, my concern is---we need the signature and full consent of the biological father in able to process this, my problem is the father of my kids will never agree on this, he may not be supporting the kids in anyway but he will never agree on changing their names to another man's name. I want to know how much chance i have to win this case, the handling cost of the lawyer says 40,000 pesos but thats only handling fee without assurance that we will win. please Give me some legal advice how to go thru this process and what are my options without the biological father's participation coz he will never cooperate.