Federal Adoption Laws

Sealed
adoption records will make your search less than easy. To add to the dilemma, federal
adoption laws are governed by rights and privileges guaranteed by the Freedom of
Information Acts as well as by the Right to Privacy Acts, but are enacted and
administered by individual states.
"Information"
and "Privacy" are the key words in the names of the important laws that
guarantee citizens the right to access records contained in executive agency and
department files pertaining to themselves, and guarantees that information can be withheld
whenever the information disclosed would clearly constitute an invasion of privacy.
Adoption
laws were created "in the best interest of the child" to protect the privacy
rights of both the adoptive family and birth parents. All states protect minor
children. After the child becomes an adult, however, the protection of the
"child" would seem irrelevant, but this is not always the case.
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