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Texas Family Code - Section 162.406. Registration Eligibility

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§ 162.406. REGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY.  (a) An adoptee who 
is 18 years of age or older may apply to a registry for information 
about the adoptee's birth parents and biological siblings.
	(b)  A birth parent who is 18 years of age or older may apply 
to a registry for information about an adoptee who is a child by 
birth of the birth parent.
	(c)  An alleged father who is 18 years of age or older and who 
acknowledges paternity but is not, at the time of application, a 
birth father may register as a birth father but may not otherwise be 
recognized as a birth father for the purposes of this subchapter 
unless:
		(1)  the adoptee's birth mother in her application 
identifies him as the adoptee's biological father;  and
		(2)  additional information concerning the adoptee 
obtained from other sources is not inconsistent with his claim of 
paternity.
	(d)  A biological sibling who is 18 years of age or older may 
apply to a registry for information about the person's adopted 
biological siblings.
	(e)  Only birth parents, adoptees, and biological siblings 
may apply for information through a registry.
	(f)  A person, including an authorized agency, may not apply 
for information through a registry as an agent, attorney, or 
representative of an adoptee, birth parent, or biological sibling.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 968, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995.

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