The problems Maria Paris caused her mother when she erroneously listed her as dead in her father’s death certificate ended yesterday when the court ordered a correction in Public Registry documents.

Assunta Paris won her case against the Public Registry to have her details corrected after she was listed as dead and her husband as a widower on his death certificate.

Emanuel Paris died in July 2011 and the certificate listed him as “widower of Assunta Paris” when she was alive.

It emerged her own daughter had made the mistake.

The court heard the department say it was Ms Paris’s daughter, Maria, who wrote in her father’s death certificate that her mother was dead too and signed that the contents of the form were correct.

Mr Justice Joseph Azzopardi said this case revolved around a mistake that said she was dead when she was still alive. He accepted the woman’s request for a correction.

He ruled that as the mistake was not made by the Public Registry, the department should not pay for the expenses related to the court case.

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