Adoption Records Access Amendments

Summary

The bill updates Utah law so that the rule allowing access to adoption records applies to every adoption. It also gives a parent who was in the child’s life before adoption the ability to ask a court to keep those records sealed for ten years after the adoptee reaches adulthood, and to extend that seal. The changes also define who may attend closed adoption hearings and set conditions for when adoption documents can be inspected.

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