After Constitutional Court ruling on double surname, to attribute a single surname to the child, the agreement between the two parents is “essential”.
In the absence of this agreement, “the surnames of both parents must be attributed, in the order decided by them, and if this further agreement is lacking, as the Court specifies in the decision, it is necessary the intervention of the judge“.
The head of the Interior and Territorial Affairs Department of the Interior Ministry, Claudio Sgaraglia, writes this in one circulate to the prefects to sensitize the mayors to provide information to the municipal registry offices on the sentence.
Therefore, in implementation of the Constitutional Court rulingthe circular reads, “the registrar will have to accept the request of the parents who intend to give the child the surname of both, in the order agreed by the same, at the time of birth, recognition or adoption, without prejudice to the agreement to attribute only the surname of only one of them “.
Source: Ansa
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