‘The proposed legislation seeks to clarify the extent of the legal right of te legitimats child to use the mother's surname. Itallows the father and the mother to agree on which eurmame the child wi" ‘and appear in the Ive birth certiicate, Purthermors, it gr legitimate child to change his surame within ten years upon re the age of majority by mere apptication to the proper loc registrar. No court approval will be necessary, and such appl for change of surname shall be allowed only once. ‘The mother is the initial life-bearer of a child. The leg child's developing physical and biological link was with de mot physiologically evidenced by the umbilical cord. Net only th hhurtaring and child-rearing starts with the mother. Accords ‘most of the biological, physiological, nurturing, and emotional ¢ fof the creation of the child is with the mother, in ease of « between the latier and the father, the mother's decision shaul influence and weight. In light of the foregoing, the passage of this bill fs 2a Lo 9