Amending a California Death or Fetal Death Certificate

Pamphlets

• VS 24 - Affidavit to Amend a Death Record (PDF)
  
• VS 24 - Declaración Jurada para Enmendar un Registro de Defunción (PDF)
  
• Correct most typographical or spelling errors
• Add most information not known at the time of death
  
• Add an AKA ("also known as") for the decedent
  
• VS 24A - Physician/Coroner's Amendment Fact Sheet (PDF)
  
• Amend medical information on a death certificate.
  

Forms

• VS 24 - Affidavit to Amend a Record (PDF)
  
• VS 24A - Physican/Coroner's Amendment (PDF)
  

Fees

Please view our current Fees. Requests received without the appropriate fee will be returned to the sender. Make your check or money order payable to CDPH Vital Records. Checks must be drawn on a United States bank. Money orders must be drawn on a United States bank or issued by the United States Postal Service.

Please do not send cash by mail. CDPH cannot be held responsible for fees paid that are lost, misdirected, or undelivered.

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