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Last updated on March 30, 2021

Texas

Summary

Texas denies the right of adult adoptees to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Unless the adoptee knows the names of the birthparents listed on the original birth certificate, an adult adoptee must petition the court in which the adoption occurred for release of an original birth certificate and “documents on which the supplementary certificate is based.”

Beginning in 2005, adoptees 18 years of age or older who also know the identities of their birth parents may obtain a non-certified copy of their OBC without the need for a court order. Forms and information about requesting an OBC under the 2005 law are available here.

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Adoption court records in Texas are sealed by motion of the court or on request of adoptive parents and may not be released except through a showing of good cause.

The Texas Vital Statistics Unit also maintains a Voluntary Central Adoption Registry, part of a system of public-private registries in the state. After a match, identifying information may be released through the registry on three conditions: 1) written consent to allow disclosure; 2) at least one hour of mandatory counseling; and 3) certification of the completion of counseling. The statute governing voluntary adoption registries in Texas is here.

Relevant Texas Law: Original Birth Certificate

Sec. 192.006. Supplementary Birth Certificates
(a) A supplementary birth certificate may be filed if the person who is the subject of the certificate:

(1) becomes the child of the person’s father by the subsequent marriage of the person’s parents;

(2) has the person’s parentage determined by a court of competent jurisdiction; or

(3) is adopted under the laws of any state.

(b) An application for a supplementary birth certificate may be filed by:

(1) an adult whose status is changed; or

(2) a legal representative of the person whose status is changed.

(c) The state registrar shall require proof of the change in status that the executive commissioner by rule may prescribe.

(d) Supplementary birth certificates and applications for supplementary birth certificates shall be prepared and filed in accordance with department rules.

(e) In accordance with department rules, a supplementary birth certificate may be filed for a person whose parentage has been determined by an acknowledgment of paternity.

Sec. 192.008. Birth Records of Adopted Person
(a) The supplementary birth certificate of an adopted child must be in the names of the adoptive parents, one of whom must be a female, named as the mother, and the other of whom must be a male, named as the father. This subsection does not prohibit a single individual, male or female, from adopting a child. Copies of the child’s birth certificates or birth records may not disclose that the child is adopted.

The highlighted portion of this section has been struck down as unconstitutional. The text, however, still appears in Texas law.

(b) After a supplementary birth certificate of an adopted child is filed, information disclosed from the record must be from the supplementary certificate.

(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules and procedures to ensure that birth records and indexes under the control of the department or local registrars and accessible to the public do not contain information or cross-references through which the confidentiality of adoption placements may be directly or indirectly violated. The rules and procedures may not interfere with the registries established under Subchapter E, Chapter 162, Family Code, or with a court order under this section.

(d) Except as provided by Subsections (e) and (f), only the court that granted the adoption may order access to an original birth certificate and the filed documents on which a supplementary certificate is based.

(e) A person applying for access to an original birth certificate and the filed documents on which the supplementary certificate is based is entitled to know the identity and location of the court that granted the adoption. If that information is not on file, the state registrar shall give the person an affidavit stating that the information is not on file with the state registrar. Any court of competent jurisdiction to which the person presents the affidavit may order the access.

(f) An adult adoptee who is applying for access to the person’s original birth certificate and who knows the identity of each parent named on the original birth certificate is entitled to a noncertified copy of the original birth certificate without obtaining a court order.

Relevant Texas Law: Adoption Court Records

Sec. 162.016. Adoption Order
(a) If a petition requesting termination has been joined with a petition requesting adoption, the court shall also terminate the parent-child relationship at the same time the adoption order is rendered. The court must make separate findings that the termination is in the best interest of the child and that the adoption is in the best interest of the child.

(b) If the court finds that the requirements for adoption have been met and the adoption is in the best interest of the child, the court shall grant the adoption.

(c) The name of the child may be changed in the order if requested.

Sec. 162.021. Sealing File
(a) The court, on the motion of a party or on the court’s own motion, may order the sealing of the file and the minutes of the court, or both, in a suit requesting an adoption.

(b) Rendition of the order does not relieve the clerk from the duty to send information regarding adoption to the vital statistics unit as required by this subchapter and Chapter 108.

Sec. 162.022. Confidentiality Maintained by Clerk
The records concerning a child maintained by the district clerk after entry of an order of adoption are confidential. No person is entitled to access to the records or may obtain information from the records except for good cause under an order of the court that issued the order.

Filed Under: Original Birth Certificates Tagged With: Adoption Registry, Mandatory Counseling, Restricted Rights, State OBC Laws, Texas

Gregory D. Luce

I am a Minnesota lawyer, DC-born adoptee, and the founder of Adoptee Rights Law Center PLLC. I've been practicing law in Minnesota state and federal courts since 1993. I also have a sense of humor.

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  1. Gaye Tannenbaum says

    August 2, 2017 at 4:23 pm

    Texas had unrestricted legislation the past two biennial sessions. SB329 was passed out of committee but not voted on. More info at texasadopteerights.org

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    • Paula Hinson Walden says

      September 23, 2019 at 7:01 pm

      I am adopted. I can’t find my original birth certificate or adoption records. My name is in the Texas vital statistics as of a birth record. It is like I was born to my adoptive parents. My birth certificate says all the right information for my adoptive parents. Do you have any ideas how I can turn up my adoption records and or my original birth certificate. I was adopted in Texas possibly California. But my birth certificate says Texas. Can you help me. [email protected]. Thank you.

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    • Gordon says

      November 5, 2020 at 11:24 am

      I am the biological son of my mother who was adopted out at three years of age. My mother had significant health issues and past away about 13 years ago. I am trying to connect with her biological siblings to trace back where her issues originated from. This law in Texas is ridiculous and only serves the needs of politicians and attorneys standing to gain from the profit off of it.

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  2. Sam says

    February 28, 2018 at 5:53 am

    From Texas – I got my Court Order by going to the courthouse, and getting directions to a State District Judge’s office there inside. I went into the office, introduced myself and said what I needed,
    “I’m adopted. I want to get a copy of my Original Birth Certificate but the lady at the Birth Certificates Office said she won’t give me one without a Court Order.” The Judges Secretary said just a minute, and went into the Judges personal office. After a moment she came out, typed something and went back in to the Judge. Then she came out and handed me a letter saying, ” Please give (me) a copy of his original birth certificate”, signed and sealed.
    I gave that letter to the same angry bitter woman at the records office. She then tendered a copy of my original Birth Certificate, and still angry and bitter, and now with contempt added.

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    • Connie Gray says

      February 28, 2018 at 7:43 am

      You don’t mention the year you did this. The law now is that it must be the judge in the court of adoption. With 254 counties each with different judges, each one makes their own decisions. Only ONE county opens to all that request. The judges in the other courts cherry pick and rarely grant access. “Good cause” is whatever they want it to be. And often that means that people in their 70s with healtih issues continue to be denied.

      Some courts allow intermediaries to have access and they charge $650 and up. They are not allowed to tell the Adoptee any information without signed permission from the birth family. So if the birth mother is deceased or they can’t find someone or their part of the lesson 2% the do not want contact the adoptee is left in the same position.

      The geography of one’s birth should not determine ones rights.

      The only reason laws did not pass in Texas in 2013 2015 and 2017 was because of state senator Donna Campbell.

      In 2013 she look down at me in this Texas State Senate hearing and said “I don’t understand for one need, is this for financial reasons that they think that they’re entitled to something”

      2015 the bill passed out of the house on 138/1 passed out of senate committee 8/0. Said to be heard on the floor Senator Campbell went to lt gov. Dan Patrick and begged him to not bring the bill to the floor. He agreed and the bill died.

      2017 Senator Campbell sent out letters to all the other senators filled with lies about the issues. She colluded with Senator Charles schwertner ( had signed on to the bill and promised to support it and then voted against it in immittee and took his name off and refuses to meet with constituents) Senator Uresti ( just convicted on unrelated felonies) Senator Zaffirini (.uses Dr. Campbell as her doctor and traded votes on this bill for her texting bill) the list goes on and on.

      The only way to pass this bill is to get Campbell out of office. Running against her in this election are two people who have pledged support: D) Steven Kling (came and gave testimony in favor in 2017) and R) Shannon McClendon who has pledged support.

      Getting laws passed is a tedious process and those in each state know what goes on behind the scenes. Want lahws passed? In Texas that means making campaign contributions to the others running and getting your friends and families to get out and vote.

      Sam, it is great that you got yours, how are you helping others?

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      • Sam says

        March 28, 2018 at 6:55 am

        The year was about 1978. The new law is hardly better – ‘if I know what do I care, for an official document’?

        It seems to me, that as a matter of justice, the Rights of a minor can not be extinguished in perpetuity without due process that allows the party to speak for themselves, beginning at whatever the legal age to contract is that is applied to all citizens.

        That a birth parent would have to mount a defense as a Jane Doe is not insurmountable. Regardless, the problem of anonymity is the parents. That arena is no place for a government to discriminate against a rather lare number of its citizens.

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      • Tbird says

        December 27, 2019 at 12:36 am

        Judges retire, die, move on, etc., so your statement about it being the same judge is 100% FALSE! Please get your facts straight. It has to be the same county where adoptions take place.

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        • Sam says

          December 27, 2019 at 6:56 am

          I would be surprised to hear that a clerk refused a court order by a judge in the county in possession of the document.

          I would think Case records are filed in the county where the officiating adoption agency is located, the Birth Certificate is in Travis County, TX

          County Judges have jurisdiction of the records in their county, only.

          The LOCATION of the record guides you.

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    • Michelle Henry says

      August 10, 2018 at 6:52 pm

      What court were you in? I am in Texas too and mine adoption was done in the 113th court. So I am wondering if maybe it was the same judge so I can be better prepared. Thank You

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      • Tbird says

        December 27, 2019 at 12:36 am

        Why do you think it has to be the same judge? It says the same COURT, not judge. The judge is not the COURT.

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  3. Michael Moyer says

    March 27, 2018 at 9:08 pm

    I am a Texas adoptee who has located my birth parents. I would like to get a certified copy of my OBC. I live in WA state but am in Austin this week. Is this something I can do in Austin, or do I need to go to Tarantino County where I was born?

    Thanks for any help,

    Michael Moyer (Bell)

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    • Shawna Hodgson says

      March 28, 2018 at 9:15 am

      Michael,
      Yes, you absolutely can go to vital statistics in Austin and apply for your OBC in person. The application can be downloaded and printed here.

      The process is a bit different from obtaining an amended birth certificate. A clerk will meet with you in a private cubicle and take your application. It usually takes a week to process a request made in person and you may either pick it up or have it mailed. Best of luck!

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  4. Connie Gray says

    March 27, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    Since to you know the names on your original birth certificate you are authorized to receive a copy of your original birth certificate from the state of Texas. The forms are online but also look on Facebook for an organization called Texas DNA and adoptee search support they have all the forms that you need in the group happy to help you

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  5. Andrea says

    April 9, 2018 at 8:20 pm

    I am a Texas adoptee that is trying to get a copy of OBC. I am not looking for financial gain, or even a meeting, rather medical information. I have already been diagnosed with Adult Onset Stills, R.A. since I was 30 and now my son is 13 and wondering what he could get as he gets older. Honestly, I would like to know what else I have to look forward to as well. They already didn’t want me once, so good practice for not getting hurt when/if they don’t want me again. Surely there is someway to get medical information.

    Does anyone know if there is a process for this? Or is it still just to get a court order from a Texas court all the way from the state of Colorado?

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    • Sam says

      April 9, 2018 at 9:10 pm

      I think you would be better served by DNA testing, and a full MRI 9 the type where your entire body is scanned and analyzed.

      A friend gave her child up and still regrets obeying her parents wishes. I was the middle child, and the only one my mother gave up – I was lucky judging from the stories by my 1/2 sibs – and 2 of the 4 of them would never speak to me. My mother had 5 children by four men. Your right not to follow your instincts, instead the more important medical information would easily serve you better. Maybe there’s a group for your medical issues.

      Don’t count on Texas. Besides, my mother gave a misleading name. I never found the person named in any of the records. I’ve always wanted to know who my parents were. You might take a look at Texas birth records for your birth date. I am listed on my birthdate as “Inf of” and ‘F’ for female, I am Male – father not listed and of course that fake name my mother gave.

      Again, Don’t count on Texas.

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  6. Michelle says

    February 2, 2019 at 1:51 pm

    Texas has NO bills supporting adoptee rights in the 86th Legislature (yet) this year. Not that it would matter… Campbell won election again, so any bills that would make any headway would be quashed anyhow. Her term is good for the next 4 years and the Lege meets only every other year, so I wouldn’t count on anything in the 87th Session in 2021, either.

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    • Gregory D. Luce says

      February 2, 2019 at 2:04 pm

      A bill is expected to be introduced soon. The Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition, of which I am a part of, has more info about the draft it worked on here. Whether that is the draft introduced is not yet fully known but Shawna Hodgson is the key person working on it.

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      • Michelle says

        August 4, 2021 at 5:13 pm

        And of COURSE it failed, and so did the 2021 bill. I called it, unfortunately. As long as Donna Campbell and Dan Patrick keep their offices, we will NEVER have adoptee rights in Texas.

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  7. Sam says

    February 2, 2019 at 2:40 pm

    How I petitioned the a Texas District Court in Austin, Texas in 1976.
    The clerk at the birth certificate office said she couldn’t give me a copy of my original Birth Certificate without a Court Order ( the number of that original certificate was hand written on the one I showed the clerk)
    Then I walked over to the courthouse and asked what I had to do to speak to a District Judge. I said I want to get my birth certificate. The lady said Judge So and So’s secretary was in his office.
    I told her I wanted to get a copy of my original brth certificate but the lady/clerk said I needed a court order.
    The secretary said just a minute, and walked into the office behind her. Moments later she came out and typed a request -‘ Please give Mr Barzilla a copy of his original birth certificate’ on the Court’s letter head and the authority properly noted in the Judge’s name.
    She again disappeared for a moment, returning with that paper signed – ‘ she said,’ Here you are’

    I walked back to the birth certificate office, produced my letter/order? and was promptly in possession of my Original Birth Certificate.

    The certificate contained the Cause number whereabouts my records could be found. Later on I did get a copy of my Adoptive parents papers. I noticed those papers did correctly reference my DNAmother’s cause to give me up.

    (And as I’ve said before – she did not use her maiden name, nor name of record – the trouble to get the original birth certificate only made me feel better, that I was doing something. She had used her given name, and the adoption agency hadn’t properly blacked out where she was born, so I had her first and middle name and her birth town. I strongly recommend getting familiar with DNA genealogy; and, get tested at two or three DNA services. Then post your Raw DNA file wherever you can.)

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  8. Teena Husak Still (allias - Buuck) says

    February 22, 2019 at 12:04 pm

    My son is now 45 years old and would like to have his sealed birth certificate. he was adopted as a child but came back into our lives at the age of 13 when the adopted parents divorced. He never was re-adopted into the family but would love to have the family last name. And now law has it that he has to have a certified birth certificate in order to keep his driver’s license updated. I live in Texas and he lives in Nebraska now. What can we do.

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  9. Al Mathews says

    September 13, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    I am adopted also. I feel my rights have been denied to me. due process, change of venue, and no class actions actions. also they may be a conflict of interest based on a study done for the courts of records. I am going to file a freedom of information requesting the entire contents of survey. My possible actions are possible filing a law suite challenging this law. I feel the court may be required to hear the case. I also plan to have a web site in the near future. My name is Al Mathews and live in Hondo Texas. My telephone number is 210 421 6980. Thanks for the information you provided.

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  10. Tbird says

    December 27, 2019 at 12:42 am

    Adoption is a fraud. They should never alter the birth certificate. They allow the vital statistics to blatantly falsify information; using you as surety for a name that was never actually born and saying that your adoptive parents attended your birth. What a bold face lie!

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  11. Sam says

    December 27, 2019 at 7:11 am

    Comment – it does appear that there are sufficient reasons – as a matter of societal peace making – to keep records closed until adulthood.

    However, as a matter of Equal Protection – at 18 -21? The Adoptee must be provided the same Due Process to access his/her records as any other adult.

    It seems somehow related that the Rules Of Evidence are changed in the case of Adoptees. A Birth Certificate is a Birth Certificate. A document modified by the state to falsify the record is not a Birth Certificate.

    see 42USC1983 These suits are so common that there are forms to file in FEDERAL COURTS to right the wrong.

    Just consider, a baby is NOT ‘Real Property’ where there is a Title to this type of Creature.

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    • Tracie says

      March 5, 2020 at 11:57 pm

      I love how you articulated this. I am in the process of filing in a Denial of Heirship, along with some other documents, Rejecting the notion that I am related to the adopters. It’s caused me a lot of problems. The home I was put in was alcoholic, abusive, violent, and godless. We absolutely need due process but I think a formal protest should suffice. I deny statutory jurisdiction in all of this. According the Common Law, adoptees are not the children of adopters and what they are doing is corrupting families. I’ve witnessed firsthand how this is all about money, it has nothing to do with parents abusing their children. They are literally kidnapping children and it’s not even legal according to their own statutes.

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      • Sam says

        March 6, 2020 at 6:58 am

        “According the Common Law..” can you show this to exist as a ‘Right’ in a convincing way, prior to the U.S.A. 1776?

        The 9th Amendment, U.S. Constitution:
        “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

        Caveat Emptor, I am NOT an attorney – I do believe the 9th protects Rights that were established prior to the United States being established, you have to be able to show it.

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        • Traci says

          June 8, 2020 at 8:40 am

          My stance today on this is that Adoption is an arrangement that creates a fictional family relationship that can only survive through the coerced belief and participation of that child subjected to the adoption. When and if that child comes to this realization and withdraws his or her belief, participation, and consent, this arrangement cannot continue. The state cannot force one to assume a false identity or believe in a fiction. Those amended birth certificates are a counterfeit – this is self-evident. I am filing a Declaration of Truth to the court, the governor, the state registrar and the living adopter making this clear (that I withdraw participation, belief, and consent). The arrangement is also a violation of God’s commandments – Honor Thy Mother and Father. I am dishonoring my mother and father if I identify other people as my mother and father as fact. This also violates having no other gods. The State is creating the child that was never born (the evidence shows that the child on the amended birth certificate was not born), is naming a new mother and father. This is blasphemous.

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      • Sam says

        March 6, 2020 at 7:21 am

        This is a fun subject – how to parse the problem, not your experiences growing up.

        You introduce an interesting problem – the DNA shows matter of fact you are not the child of the people who adopted you. It would seem there is a very long history showing you cannot be included in their problems.

        Consider where someone comes along and paints your street address on the curb in front of your house. You didn’t ask for and never heard of the person who did it. Then the actor who painted the address shows up at your door demanding $29.oo for the service.

        Where’s the contract? The greatest advantage of these United States is that we are a ‘Contract Society’ as opposed to a ‘Status Society’. What in the adoption law says you are responsible for your adoptive parents?

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        • Traci says

          June 8, 2020 at 8:42 am

          Agreed Sam. Adoption is nothing more than a social experiment. We were guinea pigs. I’m out. I do not live a fiction anymore. They’re screwed when and if the one subjected to adoption realizes what I am saying.

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  12. Sam says

    March 6, 2020 at 6:29 am

    Brilliant ! you’ve pointed out that a legal assignment of ‘parent’ remains silent as to the LEGAL status/relationship of persons who would be socially your siblings.

    (at least I think it remains silent – the law failing to define each would be Relative)

    Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant.

    Tedious, helpful book regarding the long history of abandonment in the Western World:
    The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe — John Boswell

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  13. Bob C. says

    April 22, 2020 at 1:49 pm

    All I want is a Passport. The Department of State rejected my passport application because my adoptive birth certificate is not acceptable for passport purposes. It does not list the individual who registered my birth nor the name of the institution/location where I was born.

    I don’t care to know the names of my birth parents but I do care to have the documentation I need to get my passport. I wish there was a way Texas could send whatever the State department needs directly to the State Department to fulfill the birth certificate requirements for my passport application.

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  14. Kristie Campbell says

    November 13, 2020 at 8:39 am

    Are the rules different for a child taken from the family by the court? He is now 18 and desperation wants to find info not contact. His adopted family is concerned about him being manipulated by what is left of his birth family.

    Reply
  15. H Montani says

    July 19, 2021 at 4:22 pm

    I have a niece whose mother had twins that were given up for adoption due to both poverty and the mother being mentally unable to take care of them. The niece was raised by her grandmother. For medical reasons, she needs to obtain access to the adoption records and birth records of her siblings. The father’s name is unknown. She lives in Travis County, Texas. All the adoption activity was completed in Travis County by a children’s home that went out of business. The adoption was around 35 years ago. What can she do to obtain those records?

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  16. Lisa Jones says

    August 17, 2021 at 12:32 pm

    To whom it may concern: Do I have rights to choose my name from either birth certificate? My birth or adopted? My adopted parents died when I was 6? I lost the copy of my birth certificate which is in my of my adopted parents name. I know who my real parents are. What do I do? Which birth certificate do I get?

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  17. Waukesha says

    August 18, 2021 at 9:00 am

    I’m in the state of Texas and was adopted in the state of Texas. I was told that I had to use my adopted birth certificate due to the fact my last name was changed. My OBC became null and voided. If you were adopted and your last name changed. You may need to get your adopted birth certificate.

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  18. Sandra BARNAS says

    November 15, 2021 at 3:57 pm

    I am 59 years old and through 23 and Me I believe I have found some half sisters.
    They asked to see proof of that, so I wanted to obtain my original birth certificate to see if their father is mine as well. What do I need to do? Should I hire a lawyer?
    Will it be that hard to obtain my original birth certificate? What do I need to do.
    I am from San Antonio, Bexar county.

    Reply

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Alabama. Adult adoptees have the unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates, beginning at age 19. Read more.
Alaska. Adult adoptees have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates, beginning at age 18. Full Details
Arizona. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain a copy of their own original birth certificates. Arizona implemented a "donut hole" provision in a new law, effective January 1, 2022. It provides a right to some adoptees based on their dates of birth but denies the right to obtain the OBC to the vast majority of adoptees born in the state. Read more.
Arkansas. Beginning August 1, 2018, Arkansas law allows adult adoptees to request their adoption files. The request, however, is subject to a birthparent's ability to redact their names on the original birth certificates. This flow chart outlines how the law works. More information about the law and its requirements and discriminatory limitations is also here.
California. Adult adoptees do not have a right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates, except by court order. Adoptees must petition the court and show “good and compelling cause” in order to obtain any original birth record. Read more.
Colorado. Adult adoptees have a right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. An adopted person who is at least 18 years of age may apply for and receive a non-certified copy of their original birth certificate through the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. Read more.
Connecticut. Connecticut-born adult adopted people have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The right also extends to the adult children and grandchildren of the adopted person. Read more.
Delaware. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. While adoptees 21 years of age or older may request their OBCs, birth parents may legally veto their release. Read more.
District of Columbia. Adult adoptees in the District of Columbia the do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates, except by court order. The D.C. superior court controls all aspects of releasing an OBC or any identifying information, whether from court records or from vital records. Read more.
Florida. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates. While adoptees may apply for the original birth record, it takes signed affidavits of consent from birthparents---or death certificates showing that birthparents are deceased---to compel release of the OBC. Otherwise, release is allowed only by court order. Full Details
Georgia. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates. A court order is required. Read more.
Hawaii. Hawaiian-born adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. Only people who are adopted in Hawaii can request and obtain their court adoption records, which may include an original birth certificate. The law does not apply to people born in Hawaii but adopted in a different state. Read more.
Idaho. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. An OBC is available only by court order or conditionally through a state-operated “voluntary adoption registry.” Disclosure of an original birth certificate through the registry is subject to consent of the parties and may require the consent of both birth parents. Read more.
Illinois. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The state has a tiered date-based system and uses an adoption registry to facilitate release of OBCs. The date of birth of an adoptee determines who has unrestricted rights to an OBC or who may be subject to a birth parent’s request to redact identifying information on the OBC. Read more.
Indiana. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. A new law, effective July 1, 2018, expands the release of specifically defined "identifying information," but a birth parent may prohibit release of that information at any time. Read more.
Iowa. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Original birth records are subject to the right of birthparents to file redaction requests. Full Details
Kansas. While original birth certificates are sealed, adult adoptees in Kansas have always had an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Court records in adoption proceedings are also available to adoptees upon request. Read more.
Kentucky. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. A court order is required. Read more.
Louisiana. Adult adoptees do not have access to their own original birth certificates, except by court order. An adoptee must demonstrate “compelling reasons” for a court to order release of an original birth certificate. Read more.
Maine. Adult adoptees have the unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Adoptees must be 18 years of age before requesting their OBCs. Maine also allows a birth parent to file a genuine contact preference and medical history form, which is attached to the original birth certificate. Read more.
Maryland. For all practical purposes, Maryland should be defined as a "restricted" state because there are so few current adult adoptees who may qualify under its compromised law, which applies only to adoptions finalized on or after January 1, 2000. Because adoptees must also be at least 21 years of age to request the OBC, the law effectively applies only to those adoptees who were older at the time and adopted on or after January 1, 2000. In addition, birthparents under the compromised law may at any time veto disclosure of birth records or identifying information. Adoptees whose adoptions were finalized before January 1, 2000, do not have a right to obtain their OBCs. It remains available only by court order. Read more.
Massachusetts. Not all adult adoptees have the unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Rather, adoptees born between July 17, 1974, and January 1, 2008, are denied access to their own OBCs, except by court order. Adoptees born on or before July 17, 1974, have unrestricted access to their own original birth certificates, as do those born after January 1, 2008 (upon reaching the age of 18). Read more.
Michigan. Michigan requires the use of a “Central Adoption Registry” to process information and to determine whether an adoptee should or should not get “identifying information,” which does not initially include an original birth certificate. Depending on an adoptee’s date of birth, a parent may deny access to identifying information or withhold access by saying nothing. In either case, no identifying information may be released to the adoptee, except by court order. Read more.
Minnesota. The right of adult adopted people to obtain their own original birth certificate is complex and based primarily on the date of adoption. Generally, it requires the affirmative written consent of any birthparents and the state uses a complex, confidential, and often expensive intermediary system involving the department of health, the department of human services, and individual adoption agencies. Read more.
Mississippi. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. It takes a court order. Read more.
Missouri. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The state has a complex framework that makes the original birth certificate subject to birth parent disclosure vetoes that may extend beyond the death of the parent. Read more.
Montana. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The state has a somewhat complex tiered system that depends upon an adoptee’s date of adoption. While an original birth certificate may be available more easily to adoptees who are 30 years of age or older, court orders may be required for younger adoptees and in all cases where a birth parent requests that a court order be required. Read more.
Nebraska. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain the original birth certificate. Nebraska law is remarkably complex and confusing. Generally, any right to obtain the OBC depends on the date of an adoptee’s relinquishment and also whether a birth parent—and sometimes an adoptive parent—has affirmatively consented to disclosure or has filed a “nonconsent” form objecting to the OBC’s release. Read more.
Nevada. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. It requires a court order. Read more.
New Hampshire. Adoptees who are at least 18 years of age have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The state also allows birth parents to file a contact preference form and/or health history questionnaire, neither of which will restrict the right of adult adoptees to obtain their OBCs. Read more.
New Jersey is best described as a "limited time redaction" state, as its current law, effective on January 1, 2017, provided birthparents a limited amount of time to request redaction of their information from the adoptee's original birth certificate. Thus, while most adult adoptees now have a right to obtain their own original birth certificates, approximately 550 birthparents filed redaction requests, leading to redaction of the parents’ identifying information on the OBC. Those 550 adult adoptees have no do not have the right to an unredacted original birth certificate except through securing a court order. Read more.
New Mexico. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Good cause is required through a court order. Read more.
New York. Adult adopted persons and their descendants have an unrestricted right to request and obtain the adoptee's original birth certificate, without discriminatory restrictions. The law, which overturned 83 years of iron-clad secrecy, became effective January 15, 2020. Read more.
North Carolina. Adult adoptees do not have unrestricted access to their own original birth certificates. A court order is required for the release of any identifying information, including an OBC. An OBC must be specifically requested in any court action that seeks the release of identifying information. Read more.
North Dakota. Adult adoptees do not have access to their own original birth certificates, except by court order. Read more.
Ohio. Not all adoptees in Ohio have unrestricted access to their own original birth certificates. While legislative reforms removed some restrictions in 2013, significant legal restrictions remain, including birth parent redaction and disclosure vetoes. Read more.
Oklahoma. Adult adoptees do not have unrestricted access to their original birth certificates. Currently, nearly all adult adoptees must obtain a court order and show good cause for release. While adoptees whose adoptions were finalized after November 1, 1997, do not require a court order, requests for such OBCs are subject to birth parent disclosure vetoes and redaction. Read more.
Oregon. Adoptees who are at least 21 years of age have an unrestricted right to access their original birth certificates. A birth parent may file a contact preference form but it has no effect or restriction on the right of adult adoptees to receive their OBCs. Oregon law also allows adoptees access to specific records in the court adoption proceedings. Read more.
Pennsylvania. A new law, now effective, allows adoptees who are at least 18 years of age—and who must be high school graduates, possess a GED, or are withdrawn legally from school— to request their original birth record. Birthparents, however may redact identifying information on the OBC by filing a “name redaction request.” Redaction requests may be filed or withdrawn at any time and do not extend beyond a filing parent’s death. Read more.
Rhode Island. Adult adoptees have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates at age 18. Birth parents may file a contact preference form, which has no effect on the release of an OBC. Read more.
South Carolina. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. A court order is required. Read more.
South Dakota. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates except by court order. Nevertheless, upon "maturity" an adoptee may petition the court for release of the adoptee's court adoption records, which will typically lead to or include release of the OBC. Read more.
Tennessee. Nearly all adoptees who are 21 years of age have a right to request and obtain their their “adoption records,” which should include original birth certificates. The only exception to this right is for an adult adoptee whose birth parent was a victim of rape or incest—in such cases the written consent of the birth parent is required for release of records. Tennessee also criminalizes contact with birth parents who have registered with a contact veto registry. Read more.
Texas. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. With one exception, release of the OBC requires a court order. Adoptees 18 years of age or older who also know the identities of their birth parents, however, may obtain a non-certified copy of their OBC without the need for a court order. Read more.
Utah. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. While adoptees 18 years of age or older may request their OBCs, release depends on participating in a voluntary registry as well as obtaining the consent of birthparents, unless a birthparent is dead. Read more.
Vermont. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. An OBC may be obtained through a probate court order or by adoptees who are at least 18 years of age and who have already obtained identifying information through Vermont’s Adoption Registry. Read more.
Virginia. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. Release of an OBC requires either a) a state agency’s decision, upon good cause shown, to release identifying information from the adoption records; or b) a court order upon good cause shown. Read more.
Washington. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. An OBC is available through the Department of Health but release is subject to birth parent disclosure vetoes as well as to corrupt contact preference forms that allow birthparents to deny release of the OBC. Disclosure vetoes and contact preference forms expire on the death of the birth parent. Read more.
West Virginia. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. A court order, requiring good cause, is required before the release of an OBC. Read more.
Wisconsin. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. Wisconsin requires either court order or participation in a consent-based "Adoption Records Search Program." Read more.
Wyoming. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their original birth certificates. It takes a court order for release of an OBC, with no specific standards or procedures outlined in seeking such an order. Read more.
Alabama. Adult adoptees have the unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates, beginning at age 19. Read more.
Alaska. Adult adoptees have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates, beginning at age 18. Full Details
Arizona. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain a copy of their own original birth certificates. Arizona implemented a "donut hole" provision in a new law, effective January 1, 2022. It provides a right to some adoptees based on their dates of birth but denies the right to obtain the OBC to the vast majority of adoptees born in the state. Read more.
Arkansas. Beginning August 1, 2018, Arkansas law allows adult adoptees to request their adoption files. The request, however, is subject to a birthparent's ability to redact their names on the original birth certificates. This flow chart outlines how the law works. More information about the law and its requirements and discriminatory limitations is also here.
California. Adult adoptees do not have a right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates, except by court order. Adoptees must petition the court and show “good and compelling cause” in order to obtain any original birth record. Read more.
Colorado. Adult adoptees have a right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. An adopted person who is at least 18 years of age may apply for and receive a non-certified copy of their original birth certificate through the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. Read more.
Connecticut. Connecticut-born adult adopted people have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The right also extends to the adult children and grandchildren of the adopted person. Read more.
Delaware. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. While adoptees 21 years of age or older may request their OBCs, birth parents may legally veto their release. Read more.
District of Columbia. Adult adoptees in the District of Columbia the do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates, except by court order. The D.C. superior court controls all aspects of releasing an OBC or any identifying information, whether from court records or from vital records. Read more.
Florida. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates. While adoptees may apply for the original birth record, it takes signed affidavits of consent from birthparents---or death certificates showing that birthparents are deceased---to compel release of the OBC. Otherwise, release is allowed only by court order. Full Details
Georgia. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates. A court order is required. Read more.
Hawaii. Hawaiian-born adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. Only people who are adopted in Hawaii can request and obtain their court adoption records, which may include an original birth certificate. The law does not apply to people born in Hawaii but adopted in a different state. Read more.
Idaho. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. An OBC is available only by court order or conditionally through a state-operated “voluntary adoption registry.” Disclosure of an original birth certificate through the registry is subject to consent of the parties and may require the consent of both birth parents. Read more.
Illinois. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The state has a tiered date-based system and uses an adoption registry to facilitate release of OBCs. The date of birth of an adoptee determines who has unrestricted rights to an OBC or who may be subject to a birth parent’s request to redact identifying information on the OBC. Read more.
Indiana. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. A new law, effective July 1, 2018, expands the release of specifically defined "identifying information," but a birth parent may prohibit release of that information at any time. Read more.
Iowa. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Original birth records are subject to the right of birthparents to file redaction requests. Full Details
Kansas. While original birth certificates are sealed, adult adoptees in Kansas have always had an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Court records in adoption proceedings are also available to adoptees upon request. Read more.
Kentucky. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. A court order is required. Read more.
Louisiana. Adult adoptees do not have access to their own original birth certificates, except by court order. An adoptee must demonstrate “compelling reasons” for a court to order release of an original birth certificate. Read more.
Maine. Adult adoptees have the unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Adoptees must be 18 years of age before requesting their OBCs. Maine also allows a birth parent to file a genuine contact preference and medical history form, which is attached to the original birth certificate. Read more.
Maryland. For all practical purposes, Maryland should be defined as a "restricted" state because there are so few current adult adoptees who may qualify under its compromised law, which applies only to adoptions finalized on or after January 1, 2000. Because adoptees must also be at least 21 years of age to request the OBC, the law effectively applies only to those adoptees who were older at the time and adopted on or after January 1, 2000. In addition, birthparents under the compromised law may at any time veto disclosure of birth records or identifying information. Adoptees whose adoptions were finalized before January 1, 2000, do not have a right to obtain their OBCs. It remains available only by court order. Read more.
Massachusetts. Not all adult adoptees have the unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Rather, adoptees born between July 17, 1974, and January 1, 2008, are denied access to their own OBCs, except by court order. Adoptees born on or before July 17, 1974, have unrestricted access to their own original birth certificates, as do those born after January 1, 2008 (upon reaching the age of 18). Read more.
Michigan. Michigan requires the use of a “Central Adoption Registry” to process information and to determine whether an adoptee should or should not get “identifying information,” which does not initially include an original birth certificate. Depending on an adoptee’s date of birth, a parent may deny access to identifying information or withhold access by saying nothing. In either case, no identifying information may be released to the adoptee, except by court order. Read more.
Minnesota. The right of adult adopted people to obtain their own original birth certificate is complex and based primarily on the date of adoption. Generally, it requires the affirmative written consent of any birthparents and the state uses a complex, confidential, and often expensive intermediary system involving the department of health, the department of human services, and individual adoption agencies. Read more.
Mississippi. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. It takes a court order. Read more.
Missouri. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The state has a complex framework that makes the original birth certificate subject to birth parent disclosure vetoes that may extend beyond the death of the parent. Read more.
Montana. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The state has a somewhat complex tiered system that depends upon an adoptee’s date of adoption. While an original birth certificate may be available more easily to adoptees who are 30 years of age or older, court orders may be required for younger adoptees and in all cases where a birth parent requests that a court order be required. Read more.
Nebraska. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain the original birth certificate. Nebraska law is remarkably complex and confusing. Generally, any right to obtain the OBC depends on the date of an adoptee’s relinquishment and also whether a birth parent—and sometimes an adoptive parent—has affirmatively consented to disclosure or has filed a “nonconsent” form objecting to the OBC’s release. Read more.
Nevada. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. It requires a court order. Read more.
New Hampshire. Adoptees who are at least 18 years of age have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. The state also allows birth parents to file a contact preference form and/or health history questionnaire, neither of which will restrict the right of adult adoptees to obtain their OBCs. Read more.
New Jersey is best described as a "limited time redaction" state, as its current law, effective on January 1, 2017, provided birthparents a limited amount of time to request redaction of their information from the adoptee's original birth certificate. Thus, while most adult adoptees now have a right to obtain their own original birth certificates, approximately 550 birthparents filed redaction requests, leading to redaction of the parents’ identifying information on the OBC. Those 550 adult adoptees have no do not have the right to an unredacted original birth certificate except through securing a court order. Read more.
New Mexico. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. Good cause is required through a court order. Read more.
New York. Adult adopted persons and their descendants have an unrestricted right to request and obtain the adoptee's original birth certificate, without discriminatory restrictions. The law, which overturned 83 years of iron-clad secrecy, became effective January 15, 2020. Read more.
North Carolina. Adult adoptees do not have unrestricted access to their own original birth certificates. A court order is required for the release of any identifying information, including an OBC. An OBC must be specifically requested in any court action that seeks the release of identifying information. Read more.
North Dakota. Adult adoptees do not have access to their own original birth certificates, except by court order. Read more.
Ohio. Not all adoptees in Ohio have unrestricted access to their own original birth certificates. While legislative reforms removed some restrictions in 2013, significant legal restrictions remain, including birth parent redaction and disclosure vetoes. Read more.
Oklahoma. Adult adoptees do not have unrestricted access to their original birth certificates. Currently, nearly all adult adoptees must obtain a court order and show good cause for release. While adoptees whose adoptions were finalized after November 1, 1997, do not require a court order, requests for such OBCs are subject to birth parent disclosure vetoes and redaction. Read more.
Oregon. Adoptees who are at least 21 years of age have an unrestricted right to access their original birth certificates. A birth parent may file a contact preference form but it has no effect or restriction on the right of adult adoptees to receive their OBCs. Oregon law also allows adoptees access to specific records in the court adoption proceedings. Read more.
Pennsylvania. A new law, now effective, allows adoptees who are at least 18 years of age—and who must be high school graduates, possess a GED, or are withdrawn legally from school— to request their original birth record. Birthparents, however may redact identifying information on the OBC by filing a “name redaction request.” Redaction requests may be filed or withdrawn at any time and do not extend beyond a filing parent’s death. Read more.
Rhode Island. Adult adoptees have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates at age 18. Birth parents may file a contact preference form, which has no effect on the release of an OBC. Read more.
South Carolina. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. A court order is required. Read more.
South Dakota. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their original birth certificates except by court order. Nevertheless, upon "maturity" an adoptee may petition the court for release of the adoptee's court adoption records, which will typically lead to or include release of the OBC. Read more.
Tennessee. Nearly all adoptees who are 21 years of age have a right to request and obtain their their “adoption records,” which should include original birth certificates. The only exception to this right is for an adult adoptee whose birth parent was a victim of rape or incest—in such cases the written consent of the birth parent is required for release of records. Tennessee also criminalizes contact with birth parents who have registered with a contact veto registry. Read more.
Texas. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. With one exception, release of the OBC requires a court order. Adoptees 18 years of age or older who also know the identities of their birth parents, however, may obtain a non-certified copy of their OBC without the need for a court order. Read more.
Utah. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates. While adoptees 18 years of age or older may request their OBCs, release depends on participating in a voluntary registry as well as obtaining the consent of birthparents, unless a birthparent is dead. Read more.
Vermont. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. An OBC may be obtained through a probate court order or by adoptees who are at least 18 years of age and who have already obtained identifying information through Vermont’s Adoption Registry. Read more.
Virginia. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. Release of an OBC requires either a) a state agency’s decision, upon good cause shown, to release identifying information from the adoption records; or b) a court order upon good cause shown. Read more.
Washington. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. An OBC is available through the Department of Health but release is subject to birth parent disclosure vetoes as well as to corrupt contact preference forms that allow birthparents to deny release of the OBC. Disclosure vetoes and contact preference forms expire on the death of the birth parent. Read more.
West Virginia. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. A court order, requiring good cause, is required before the release of an OBC. Read more.
Wisconsin. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their own original birth certificates. Wisconsin requires either court order or participation in a consent-based "Adoption Records Search Program." Read more.
Wyoming. Adult adoptees do not have an unrestricted right to obtain their original birth certificates. It takes a court order for release of an OBC, with no specific standards or procedures outlined in seeking such an order. Read more.

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