In Chile, the law began to change the order of surnames: how to do the process?

La Ley 21.224 permite cambiar el orden de los apellidos de una persona. Es decir, gracias a esta normativa, ya no será obligación que el apellido paterno vaya primero que el de la madre, y la decisión podrán tomarla las y los mismos progenitores.

The Undersecretary of Human Rights, Lorena Recabarren, highlighted the importance of this initiative for “the value it has regarding personal, individual autonomy, of people of power as a couple -or when circumstances make it only a mother or a fatherthat enrolls the child- of being able to determine freely and not under an imposition, what is the order of the surnames. ”

To carry out the procedure that is accepted to this law, the Civil Registry ordered on its website a section where people may go to the regulations, specifying the modification they wish to do.

There are also three types of forms depending on whether they are adults, sons and daughters recognized by both parents, or daughters recognized by a single parent or parent.

Hernán Larraín, Minister of Justice, explained that to make the request, an hour must be requested in the Civil Registry, in person or at www.registrocivil.cl, and that the procedure will have no associated cost.However, once the process is finished, if you want to get the identity or passport card with the updated data, the amount corresponding to each document will have to be paid.

If a father or mother wants to change their last names and having children, there are two options.If the son or daughter is under 14 years, they must continue with the modification that regulates their parent, while if he has between 14 and 18, she or he can choose if he is accommodated to the new identity or maintains the order he had eventhen.

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By |Catalina Álvarez |C.P.