No Need to File in Court to Correct a Clerical or Typographical Error in an Entry and/or Change of First Name or Nickname in the Birth Certificate
Under Republic Act No. 9048, the city or municipal civil registrar or the consul general is authorized to correct a clerical or typographical error in an entry and/or change of first name or nickname in the civil register without need of a judicial order. Image grabbed from MasterCitizen's Blog-WordPress.com For this reason, there is no need to file in court to correct a clerical or typographical error in an entry and/or change of first name or nickname in the civil register. Clerical or Typographical Error refers to a mistake committed in the performance of clerical work in writing, copying, transcribing or typing an entry in the civil register that is harmless and innocuous, such as misspelled name or misspelled place of birth or the like, which is visible to the eyes or obvious to the understanding, and can be corrected or changed only by reference to other existing record or records: Provided, however, That no correction must involve the change of nationality, a...