Request for Release of Information
For adoptions granted prior to January 1, 2005, identifying information may be released from a sealed adoption record to:
Who?
- An adopted person who is 18-years-of-age or older.
- A descendant of a deceased adopted person*.
- A parent** of an adopted person, once the adoptee is 18 years and six months of age or older.
What information will be released?
- Identifying information about an adult adoptee or birth parent may be released from the sealed adoption record.
- No identifying information from the sealed record will be released if a veto has been registered with the Post Adoption Registry prior to the request for information.
* Please provide a death certificate, obituary notice or funeral card.
** Biological parent (who has been named in the adoption record) or an adoptive parent under a previous adoption order, who has been named in the adoption order.
