ABSTRACT
This study aimed to analyze the importance of the biological father's recognition of children in birth registration reviewed from civil law and the procedure of a biological father recognizing a natural child that had been recorded in the civil registry administratively based on the marriage certificate. The problem formulation in this study was answered with normative legal research. The results showed that the recognition of biological fathers to children in birth registration was very important because it was very influential in the life of the child today and in the future. The procedure conducted by the biological father in acknowledging the biological child that had been recorded on the civil registry in the sequence was that the applicant filed a lawsuit to the court with the conditions that have been determined, prepared evidence in the form of DNA test results, and proposed two witnesses to provide information and strengthen the lawsuit.
