What is My Child’s Ethnicity if My Spouse and I are Kinh and Ha Ethnic Groups?
Pursuant to Clause 2, Article 29 of the Civil Code 2015, regulations on the right to define and redefine ethnicity are as follows:
An individual at birth is identified with the ethnicity of their biological father or mother. In cases where the biological father and mother belong to two different ethnicities, the child's ethnicity is determined according to the ethnicity of the father or mother as agreed upon by the parents; in the absence of such an agreement, the child's ethnicity is determined according to custom; in cases of differing customs, the child's ethnicity is determined according to the custom of the less populous ethnicity.
According to the above regulation, in cases where the parents belong to two different ethnicities, the child's ethnicity is the ethnicity of the father or mother as agreed upon. However, you and your spouse have not reached an agreement on this matter. Therefore, your child's ethnicity will be determined by the custom of the less populous ethnicity, which is the Ha Nhi ethnicity.
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