Any person twenty-one (21) years of age or over who has been adopted in this state may request the bureau through a licensed adoption agency providing post-adoption services to obtain and provide the identifying information regarding either or both of his or her birth parents maintained as provided in Section 93-17-205, unless that birth parent has executed an affidavit prohibiting the release of such information.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children
Article 7 - Mississippi Adoption Confidentiality Act
§ 93-17-211. Civil and criminal immunity for persons acting under Adoption Confidentiality Act
§ 93-17-213. Promulgation of rules and regulations; fees
§ 93-17-215. Request by adoptee for identifying information
§ 93-17-217. Identification and counseling of requesting adoptee; release of information by bureau
§ 93-17-221. Petition in chancery court for disclosure of identifying information
§ 93-17-223. One birth parent prohibited from divulging identity of other parent