The adoption file is considered sealed once the adoption is finalized. Many judges are very conservative and will require good cause to unseal the adoption file (i.e., it is rarely done). However, if agreements were made between parties for communication to take place, that would be one way to ask questions or seek answers regarding identifying or non-identifying information.
An adoptee and/or the adoptee’s parents, if he or she is a minor, can request nonidentifying information about himself/herself and his/her birth parents by putting in writing a request to the adoption agency, attorney, or the Florida Post Adoption Services Unit located in Tallahassee. However, in recent years, this information has been required at the time of the adoption.
If it is not known where or who facilitated the adoption, the adoptee can register on the Florida Adoption Reunion Registry (for identifying information) or request information from the Florida Post Adoption Services Unit (non-identifying information). The registry is a passive one so both parties would have to have registered in order for information to be shared.