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...re or after the adoption is decreed, which do not expressly include the person by name or by some designation not based on a parent and child or blood relationship; (b) The legal parents of an adopted person may be notified that a sibling of the adopted person has been placed into out-of-home care. For the purposes of this division, "sibling" means a former biological sibling, former legal sibling, or any person wh...

...nd, including fraud, misrepresentation, failure to give any required notice, or lack of jurisdiction of the parties or of the subject matter, unless, in the case of the adoption of a minor, the petitioner has not taken custody of the minor, or, in the case of the adoption of a minor by a stepparent, the adoption would not have been granted but for fraud perpetrated by the petitioner or the petitioner's spouse, or, in...

...d guilty to, or accused of any criminal offense involving any act that resulted in a child being abused or neglected; whether the person, in a case in which a child has been adjudicated to be an abused or neglected child, has been determined to be the perpetrator of the abusive or neglectful act that is the basis of the adjudication; whether the person has been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or accused of a violati...

...ourt or maintained by the department of children and youth, an agency, or attorney without the consent of a court. (2) An agency or attorney may examine the agency's or attorney's own papers, books, and records pertaining to an adoption without a court's consent for official administrative purposes. The department of children and youth may examine its own papers, books, and records pertaining to an adoption, or su...

...ealth disclose to the adopted person which court entered the interlocutory order or final decree of adoption regarding the adopted person if the adopted person seeks to do either or both of the following: (1) Inspect, pursuant to division (D) of section 3107.17 of the Revised Code, a social and medical history form of a biological parent of the adopted person; (2) Submit, pursuant to division (E) of section 31...

...(A) Except when giving effect to such a decree would violate the public policy of this state, a court decree terminating the relationship of parent and child, or establishing the relationship by adoption, issued pursuant to due process of law by a court of any jurisdiction outside this state, whether within or outside the United States, shall be recognized in this state, and the rights and obligations of the parties ...

...If the adopted person was born in this state or outside the United States, the court shall forward all of the following to the department of health within thirty days after an adoption decree becomes final: (A) A copy of the adopted person's certificate of adoption; (B) The form prescribed under division (A)(1) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code, if a parent filled out and signed the form pursuant to sectio...

...ption, the court shall notify the child support enforcement agency administering a child support order pertaining to the adopted child. On receipt of that notice, the child support enforcement agency shall, pursuant to section 3119.89 of the Revised Code, terminate any order of support that exists for the child.

...opted person. (10) "Offspring" means a child, by birth, of a person. (11) "Release" means both of the following: (a) A release filed by a biological parent or biological sibling pursuant to former section 3107.40 of the Revised Code, as repealed by Sub. S.B. 23 of the 130th general assembly, that authorized the release of identifying information to the biological parent's offspring or the release of specified ...

...pted person, including releases for which withdrawals of releases were filed, to the adopted person's adoption file. An adopted person or lineal descendant of an adopted person who obtains the contents of the adopted person's adoption file pursuant to section 3107.38 of the Revised Code may use the releases, along with any contact preference forms placed in the adoption file pursuant to section 3107.39 of the...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall prescribe a contact preference form for biological parents. The form shall include all of the following: (1) A component in which a biological parent is to indicate one of the following regarding a person who receives, under section 3107.38 of the Revised Code, a copy of the contents of the adoption file of the parent's offspring: (a) That the biological parent wel...

...arent was not previously prepared or such a history was prepared but should be corrected or expanded, the biological parent does the following as appropriate: (i) Completes a social and medical history form in accordance with section 3107.091 or 3107.393 of the Revised Code; (ii) Corrects or expands the biological parent's social and medical history in accordance with division (D) of section 3107.09 of the Re...

...The department of health shall include on its web site information about biological parent's name redaction request forms. All of the following information shall be provided: (A) The purpose of the form; (B) The procedures to be followed and requirements to be met for the department to accept the form; (C) The date when biological parents may begin to file the form with the department; (D) The date when the ...

...The department of health shall attach a social and medical history form prescribed under section 3107.09 of the Revised Code to each contact preference form and biological parent's name redaction request form it makes available to a biological parent pursuant to section 3107.39 or 3107.391 of the Revised Code. A biological parent for whom such a form was not completed in accordance with section 3107.09 of the R...

... health shall establish a system by which an adopted person or lineal descendant of an adopted person may request that the department mail to the adopted person's biological parent a question that the adopted person or lineal descendant has about the biological parent's medical history if both of the following apply: (1) The adopted person or lineal descendant received a copy of the contents of the adopted pe...

...of section 3107.083 if the birth parent checked the "no" space provided on that component. (2) The form prescribed under division (A)(1) of section 3107.50 of the Revised Code. (H) "Effective denial of release form" means a denial of release form that has not been rescinded by an authorization of release form pursuant to division (B) of section 3107.46 of the Revised Code. (I) "Final decree of adoption" inclu...

...(A) A birth parent who did not check, pursuant to section 3107.081 or 5103.151 of the Revised Code, the "no" space provided on the component of the form prescribed pursuant to division (A)(1)(b) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code may sign, date, and have filed with the department of health a denial of release form prescribed under section 3107.50 of the Revised Code. A birth parent who signs an authorization of ...

... effective denial of release form for each birth parent in the adopted person's adoption file, refuse to provide the adopted person or adoptive parent a copy of the contents of the adopted person's adoption file; (3) If there is an effective denial of release form for only one of the birth parents in the adopted person's adoption file and the fee required by section 3705.241 of the Revised Code is paid, provide the ...

...(A) An adopted person age twenty-one or older may submit a request with the department of health for the department to assist the adopted person's birth parent or birth sibling in finding the adopted person's name by adoption pursuant to section 3107.49 of the Revised Code. The adopted person shall submit the request on a form prescribed by the department under section 3107.51 of the Revised Code. If the adopted pers...

...option; (2) The adopted person was the child of the birth parent or sibling of the birth sibling before the adoption; (3) In the case of a request by a birth parent, the court that issued the adopted person's final decree of adoption sends the department, in accordance with division (B) of this section, a notice stating that the birth parent's parental rights concerning the adopted person were not involuntarily ter...

...(A) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, the department of health shall prescribe the following forms: (1) A denial of release form to be used by a birth parent under division (A) of section 3107.46 of the Revised Code. The form shall explain that the birth parent may rescind the denial of release at any time by signing, dating, and having filed with the department of health an author...

...f health shall prescribe a form with which an adopted person may make a request under division (A) of section 3107.48 of the Revised Code. The form shall require all of the following information: (1) The residence address of the adopted person; (2) The adopted person's name and date of birth as it appears on the adopted person's new birth record; (3) The notarized signature of the adopted person; (4) Any other in...

...ay inspect or copy all or part of any such record except pursuant to section 3107.47 of the Revised Code.

...No officer or employee of the department of health who releases any information contained in an adopted person's adoption file or provides a copy of the contents of an adopted person's adoption file to a person who requests the copy pursuant to section 3107.47 or 3107.49 of the Revised Code is liable in damages in a civil action to any person for injury, death, or loss allegedly arising from the release to the person...

...t's age at the time the birth parent's child is adopted; (b) The medical and genetic history of the birth parents; (c) The age, sex, and medical and genetic history of an adopted person's birth sibling and extended family members; (d) A person's heritage and ethnic background, educational level, general physical appearance, religion, occupation, and cause of death; (e) Any information that may be included in ...