2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 15 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 15-7 - Adoption of Children
Section 15-7-5.1 - Contact preference form information.


RI Gen L § 15-7-5.1 (2013) What's This?

§ 15-7-5.1 Contact preference form information. – Upon providing consent to an adoption, the biological parent(s) shall be informed that, consistent with subdivision 23-3-15(g)(1), an adoptee may obtain a non-certified copy of his/her unaltered, original certificate of birth upon his/her twenty-fifth (25th) birthday, and that the birth parent is allowed and authorized to file a contact preference form with the division of vital records as provided in subdivision 23-3-15(g)(2).

History of Section.
(P.L. 2011, ch. 228, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 239, § 1.)

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