Sec. 162.401. PURPOSE. The purpose of this subchapter is to provide for the establishment of mutual consent voluntary adoption registries through which adoptees, birth parents, and biological siblings may voluntarily locate each other. It is not the purpose of this subchapter to inhibit or prohibit persons from locating each other through other legal means or to inhibit or affect in any way the provision of postadoptive services and education, by adoption agencies or others, that go further than the procedures set out for registries established under this subchapter.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 5 - The Parent-Child Relationship and the Suit Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship
Subtitle B - Suits Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship
Subchapter E. Voluntary Adoption Registries
Section 162.403. Establishment of Voluntary Adoption Registries
Section 162.404. Requirement to Send Information to Central Registry
Section 162.405. Determination of Appropriate Registry
Section 162.406. Registration Eligibility
Section 162.408. Proof of Identity
Section 162.412. Supplemental Information
Section 162.414. Matching Procedures
Section 162.416. Disclosure of Identifying Information
Section 162.419. Registry Records Confidential