All Adoption Records And Original Birth Certificates Available To Ohio Citizens
New Ohio Law Gives Adoptees Easier Access To Adoption Birth Records
UPDATE – March 20, 2015, is the first day that individuals adopted in Ohio between January 1, 1964, and September 18, 1996, can pay a $20 fee, and fill out a request form to get a copy of their original birth certificate and certificate of the adoption. Ohio now becomes the twelfth state to provide ALL of their adopted citizens access to their adoption records. This will affect up to 400,000 people who have previously been denied access to their Ohio birth records.
To learn more about this process, view this comprehensive 8 minute video from the Ohio Vital Statistics.
To obtain the request form go to: www.odh.ohio.gov/vs
Here is the backstory from my article from May 10, 2014, posted on the Ohio Family Law Blog.
Adoptees Can Access Original Birth Certificate Says New Ohio Law
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