This publication is an attempt to compile and translate selective decisions of the Supreme Court on Citizenship and Birth Registration for wider dissemination and reference. This publication would undoubtedly aid law and policy makers, concerned officials holding the authority to issue legal identity documents, lawyers and other stake holders to consider the consolidated judgments regarding legal identity in a succinct manner. This publication is also a milestone to mark the pivotal role of judiciary in upholding and recognizing independent rights of women to confer transfer and retain citizenship to their children on equal terms with men. FWLD would like to extend its gratitude to Rewati Raj Tripathi, translator, and all the other translators who translated the decisions rendered by the Supreme Court for the purpose of this publication. Not to mention the support of my FWLD colleagues in the process of the publication that is praiseworthy. Sabin Shrestha Executive Director Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD)