If you’re an 18-year old (you know, an adult) who wants to put in a request for a court order for your records, you can’t. You have to get your adoptive parents’ permission or wait ’til you’re 21.
If you’re an 18-year old birth sibling (you know, an adult) and want to put in a request to get information on your lost to adoption sibling. You can’t. You have to wait until you’re 21.
That’s called justice around these here in parts. (Here’s the law in all of its glory.)
Lame!
I guess moving to another state wouldn’t solve the problem.
) Just kidding. It sounds very very frustrating. BUT, that doesn’t mean you can’t register with the ISRR and start a search on your own. Don’t just sit and wait the 3 years, be active in your own search. After all, even when you have a name that doesn’t mean you can find your birth family. You will still have to search unless the court knows where they are now and they haven’t moved. It’s usually not that easy.
Teri Brown
http://www.AdoptionRecords.com
In the state of Nebraska it’s 25 or at least it was 10 years ago.