Section 5-3A-41 – Urgently Needed Medical Information
(a) If, after a hearing on petition of an adoptee or former parent, a court is satisfied that the adoptee or blood relative of the adoptee or former parent urgently needs medical information not in agency and court records, the court may appoint an intermediary to try to contact the adoptee or a former parent of […]
Section 5-3A-42 – Vital Records
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated. (2) “Director” means the State Director of Social Services. (3) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health. (b) This section applies only to an adoption in which a court enters an order for adoption on or after January 1, 2000. (c) This section does not bar: (1) an adoptee or biological […]
Section 5-3A-43 – Access for Adoptive Parent
(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, access to a dental or medical record of an adopted minor may not be denied to a parent of the minor because the parent is an adoptive parent. (b) Access to a dental or medical record under this section may not include access to any part of the record […]
Section 5-3A-39 – Medical and Mental Health Information
(a) A child placement agency shall make reasonable efforts to compile and make available to a prospective adoptive parent: (1) all of the prospective adoptee’s medical and mental health records that the agency has; or (2) a comprehensive medical and mental health history of the prospective adoptee. (b) On request of a prospective adoptive parent, a child placement agency […]
Section 5-3A-40 – Court and Agency Records
(a) (1) (i) On request of an adoptee or adoptive or former parent of an adoptee and without a showing of a need, a child placement agency shall provide information, other than identifying information, in its adoption record on the adoptee. (ii) If a child placement agency denies a request under this paragraph, then on petition of an adoptee […]