<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6002.18332" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Dee-</DIV> <DIV><BR>Your situation is different in that there was no marriage. Where a marriage exists there is a legal presumption that the husband fathered the children born during the marriage--unless someone could prove otherwise. Where there is NO marriage then parentage would have to be established through other means--in your case the birth records of the children.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/9/2011 7:23:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, wncgen@yahoo.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>I have two grandchildren who are drawing Social Security.  Their father is deceased.  He and their mother (my duaghter) were never married (they were under 18 when the kids were born and I refused to sign for her to marry him because I knew he was a drug addict.  We think an overdose killed him at age 33.)  When my daughter applied for SS for them after his death, she was not asked about a marriage - just their birth certificates as marriage doesn't prove fatherhood.  Hope this helps.</DIV> <DIV>Dee<BR></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>