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Adoption records and postadoption contact agreements : state statutes / Ebony Bartlett, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Family issues in the 21st century series.
- Family Issues in the 21st Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption--Law and legislation--United States--States.
- Adoption.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, 2016.
- Summary:
- In nearly all States, adoption records are sealed and withheld from public inspection after an adoption is finalised. This book discusses state laws that provide for access to both nonidentifying and identifying information from an adoption record by adoptive parents and adult adopted persons, while still protecting the interests of all parties. Furthermore, the book discusses postadoption contact agreements, which are are arrangements that allow contact between a childs adoptive family and members of the childs birth family or other persons with whom the child has an established relationship, such as a foster parent, after the childs adoption has been finalized. These arrangements, sometimes referred to as cooperative adoption or open adoption agreements, can range from informal, mutual understandings between the birth and adoptive families to written, formal contracts.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-63485-438-1
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