Parental benefit is intended to ensure parents an income in connection with the birth or adoption of a child. If you are expecting a child and have not had an income in the past year, you can receive a lump-sum instead of the parental benefit.

Use the guide to decide whether you should apply for parental benefit or a lump-sum grant. You can only apply for one of them. 

You can receive cash-for-care benefits for children between the ages of one and two years of age or for adopted children who have not started school. If your child attends a government subsidised day care centre full-time, you will not receive cash-for-care benefits. If your child attends a government subsidised day-care centre part-time, you can receive partial support.

Here you can see the process for registering your child in the National Population Register and how you can give him or her a name.

You may be entitled to child benefit if you have a child under the age of 18 in your care, who is living with you in Norway. Single parents are also entitled to extended child benefit and infant supplement. You do not usually need to apply for child benefit. If the child is born in Norway, the mother will automatically receive child benefit around 2 months after the child is born.

Here you can search for first names and surnames and find out how many in Norway who has the name and how it has been used over time.

Apply to your municipal authority for a kindergarten place for your child. If you wish change your child's attendance at a public kindergarten, you should notify your municipality. You can do so online.

You can change your first name, middle name and last name. Note that the middle name is not a first name. Names which can be used as a surname, may also be taken as a middle name.

If you are a father or co-mother and share custody with the mother, you must approve the name choice mother has reported. You do this online.