26.33.345 - Search for birth parent or adopted child -- Limited release of information--Noncertified copies of original birth certificate.

Search for birth parent or adopted child — Limited release of information — Noncertified copies of original birth certificate.

(1) The department of social and health services, adoption agencies, and independent adoption facilitators shall release the name and location of the court where a relinquishment of parental rights or finalization of an adoption took place to an adult adoptee, a birth parent of an adult adoptee, an adoptive parent, a birth or adoptive grandparent of an adult adoptee, or an adult sibling of an adult adoptee, or the legal guardian of any of these.

     (2) The department of health shall make available a noncertified copy of the original birth certificate of a child to the child's birth parents upon request.

     (3) For adoptions finalized after October 1, 1993, the department of health shall make available a noncertified copy of the original birth certificate to the adoptee after the adoptee's eighteenth birthday unless the birth parent has filed an affidavit of nondisclosure.

[1993 c 81 § 3; 1990 c 145 § 2.]