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SEALED FILE INFORMATION
Date__5/24/99
Fee Number__________
Washington State Law provides:
A. An adopted person over the age of 21, or a Birth -Parent or member
of the Birth-Parent's family, may peitition the Superior Court in the
County of Adoption to appoint a Confidential Intermediary to search
for the Birth Parent(s) or adopted person.
B. As a Birth Parent, you may request an uncertified copy of the original
Birth Cerificate from the Sealed File. Be sure to inform us that you are
the Birth Parent requesting a copy of the original Birth Certificate.
Include the following information and a $15.00 Fee.
* Name of Child at birth (if name was given)
* Date of Birth
* Place of Birth
* Father's Full name ( if listed on the Certificate)
* Mother's full Maiden Name (or name used at Birth)
C. Non-Identifying information may be disclosed by:
1) The Department of Social & Health Services,
2) The Adoption Agency which handled the Adoption or,
3) The court in which the Adoption was granted.
Our State does not have a birth registry.
A Certified copy of a Court Order to Open a Sealed File is Required.
At the time the Adoption information was received, the original Birth Certificate
was placed in a Sealed File. this information cannot be released without a
Court Order from the Superior Court which granted the adoption.
CHS must have a $13.00 fee for each certified copy of the Birth Certificate
requested.
CHS must have a $15.00 Fee to open and review an Adoption Sealed File.
(RCW 26.33.330 and WAC 246.491.990)
DOH/CHS Adopt 6/93
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