Paige Harris, the little girl whose mother was "not recorded" on her birth certificate, finally has a new and fully updated version where she is listed.
Newshub was there with Paige and her dad Kyle Harris to pick up her new birth certificate.
It's been a two-year battle for Harris to get this change for his daughter. Paige was the only child in New Zealand to have her mother's name listed as "not recorded" on her birth certificate.
An IVF baby, her biological mother Kat Harris tragically died before she was born and the law would not allow her name on the certificate.
So Paige needed her own law - The Paige Harris Birth Registration Act 2022 - which was passed in Parliament last week.
But before the new birth certificate could be issued, it needed to be signed off on behalf of the Queen by Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro - who let Newshub in to witness it.
"It has been a hard battle for her and for her whanau," Dame Cindy says.
Harris promised Kat he would get the certificate changed and he was helped in the fight by the surrogate who carried her, Renee, and her husband Josh Johnson.
Paige's birth certificate is now correct and her mother is recorded as Katherine Harris.
"I guess it was hard to believe it until I actually saw it, like, on the piece of paper. So to see it - awesome," Harris says.
To see what it means, all it took was one look at Harris' big smile. He had fulfilled a promise made to his dying wife, with a gift that his daughter will never, ever forget - that is once she's old enough to realise it.
