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2. Sealed birth records - Wikipedia

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   Sealed birth records refers to the practice of sealing the original birth certificate upon adoption or legitimation, often making a copy of the record unavailable except by court order. Upon finalization of the adoption, the original birth certificate is sealed and replaced with an amended birth certificate declaring the adoptee to be the child ...

3. Adoptee rights - Wikipedia

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   Adoptee rights are the legal and social rights of adopted people relating to their adoption and identity. These rights frequently center on access to information which is kept sealed within closed adoptions, but also include issues relating to intercultural or international adoption, interracial adoption, and coercion of birthparents.

4. Same-sex adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In January 2019, the state of South Carolina applied for and was granted a waiver to let adoption agencies block same-sex couples from adopting or becoming foster parents. A Greenville couple has filed a lawsuit in this case and its outcome is pending. [42] Supreme Court cases, like Baker v. State (1999) and Varnum v.

5. Putative father registry - Wikipedia

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   - Idaho Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics - Idaho Putative Father Registration Form; Illinois - The Illinois putative father registry online form notes that registering as a putative father is only the first step in starting legal proceedings to establish paternity. The legal proceedings are called a "parentage action" and must be ...

6. Adoption disclosure - Wikipedia

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   Though adoption is an ancient practice, the notion of formal laws intended to solidify the adoption by restricting information exchange is comparatively young. In most Western countries until the 1960s and 1970s, adoption bore with it a certain stigma as it was associated in the popular mind with illegitimacy , orphanhood , and premarital or ...

7. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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   It is a bill that would address federal adoption incentives and would amend the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to demonstrate that the state agency has developed policies and procedures for identifying, documenting in agency records, and determining appropriate services with respect ...