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Citation: Fam. Law §§ 5-4C-05; 5-356; 5-357Only the following persons may register with the adoption registry for exchange of identifying information:
A local department shall make reasonable efforts to compile and make available to a prospective adoptive parent a comprehensive medical and mental health history of the prospective adoptive child. On request of an adoptive parent, a local department shall make reasonable efforts to compile a pertinent medical and mental health history of each of the adoptive child’s birth parents, if available to the local department, and to make that history available to the adoptive parent. A medical or mental health history may not contain identifying information about a parent or former parent.On request of an adopted person, adoptive parent, or birth parent, a local department shall provide information in its adoption record on the adopted person. The records that are accessed may not contain any identifying information.
Citation: Family Law § 5-3A-39
The child-placing agency shall make reasonable efforts to compile any available information.Contents of Report About the Adopted Person
Citation: Family Law §§ 5-3A-39
The child-placing agency shall make reasonable efforts to compile and make available to a prospective adoptive parent:
All of the prospective adopted person’s medical and mental health records that the agency has
A comprehensive medical and mental health history of the prospective adopted person
On request of a prospective adoptive parent, a child-placing agency shall make reasonable efforts to compile pertinent medical and mental health histories of each of the prospective adopted person’s parents, if available to the agency, and to make the histories available to the prospective adoptive parent.
If, after adoption, a child-placing agency receives medical or mental health information about the adopted person or adopted person’s former parent, the agency shall make reasonable efforts to make the information available to the adoptive parent.If, after adoption, the adoptive parent requests additional information, the child-placing agency shall make reasonable efforts to notify the former parent at the former parent’s last known address available to the agency of the request and the reason for the request.
Citation: Fam. Law §§ 5-341, 5-352, 5-3A-36, 5-3B-25; Est. & Trusts § 1-207
After an order of adoption has been entered, each of the adopted person’s living birth parents is relieved of all parental duties and obligations to the adopted person and divested of all parental rights as to the adopted person.Upon adoption, a child no longer shall be considered a child of either birth parent, except that upon adoption by the spouse of a birth parent, the child shall still be considered the child of that birth parent.Adoptive Parents in Relation to Adopted Person
After an order for adoption has been entered, the adopted person is considered the child of the adoptive parent(s) for all intents and purposes and is entitled to all of the rights and privileges of and is subject to all of the obligations of offspring born to the adoptive parent(s). An adopted child shall be treated as a birth child of his adopting parent(s).Adopted Persons Who Are Not Included in a Will
Citation: Est. & Trusts § 3-301
Citation: Family Law § 5-3B-04(c)An order for adoption entered in compliance with a foreign jurisdiction’s laws shall have the same legal effect as an order for adoption entered in this State.Readoption After an Intercountry Adoption
Citation: Family Law § 5-3B-04(d)
Citation: Health-Gen. Code Ann. § 4-211(i) The Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene shall, upon request, prepare and register a certificate in this State for a person born in a foreign country and who was adopted by a State resident:
Proof of the date and place of the adoptee’s birth