Texas Family Code - Section 162.401. Purpose
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§ 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, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.
Section: 162.303 162.304 162.3041 162.305 162.306 162.308 162.309 162.401 162.402 162.403 162.404 162.405 162.406 162.407 162.408
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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