CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES
STATE OF CALIFORNIA - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY
REQUEST FOR A CERTIFIED COPY OF A FILED
VOLUNTARY DECLARATION OF PARENTAGE (VDOP)
DCSS 0918 (01/01/2020)
SWORN STATEMENT
I, ___________________________________, declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California, that I
(Applicant's Printed Name)
am an authorized person, as defined in California Family Code section 7571(i), and am eligible to receive a certified copy of
the filed Voluntary Declaration of Parentage of the following individual(s):
Name of Child Listed on
Voluntary D
eclaration of Parentage
Name of Parents Listed on Voluntary Declaration of Parentage
(Must be a relationship identified in California Family Code §7571(i))
Subscribed to this ______ day of ______________, 20___, at ________________________________, _____________.
(Day) (Month) (City) (State)
______________________________________________________
(Applicant's Signature)
Note: In order for the Parentage Opportunity Program (POP) to process a request for a certified copy of a filed Voluntary
Declaration of Parentage form, the Sworn Statement must be notarized using the Certificate of Acknowledgment below. The
Certificate of Acknowledgment must be completed by a Notary Public. (Law enforcement and local and state governmental
agencies are exempt from the notary requirement.) Only one sworn statement is required for multiple records.
(The remaining information must be completed in the presence of a Notary Public.)
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CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the
identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is
attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.
that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.
I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
Signature___________________________________________
(Seal)
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nia
County of________________________________)
On ___________________before me, _________________________________,
(insert name and title of the officer)
personally appeared __________________________________,
who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument
and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their
signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.
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