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About Adoption Records in Arizona
Arizona adoption records are sealed, and not all adoptees in the state can get their original birth certificates. Without this information, it’s difficult to locate and reconnect with your biological relatives.
One option available to Arizona adoptees is the state’s Confidential Intermediary program. If an adoptee or a birth parent makes a request through the program, an intermediary can contact the other party to see if they’re willing to share information.
Even with this option, however, you may have trouble finding what you’re looking for in Arizona. That’s where Adopted.com can help.
With Adopted.com, you don’t need your official Arizona adoption records for the opportunity to reunite with your biological family. Our voluntary adoption reunion registry allows adoptees and birth parents to search for one another if they’ve both mutually consented to share information.
From Tucson to Flagstaff, our expansive registry spans the state of Arizona, offering hope to those who are looking for information. Get started today by answering ten easy questions that you probably already know about the adoption.
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5,152 Are Adoptions in Arizona Open?
Arizona law allows for both open and closed adoptions. In an open adoption, a legal contract usually explains how communication will take place. Both the adoptive parents and the birth parents must agree to the contract.
However, Arizona adoption records are separate documents. They become sealed once a court has finalized the adoption, whether it’s open or closed.
How Do I Get My Adoption Records Unsealed in Arizona?
You’ll need a court order to unseal your adoption records in Arizona. Contact the county clerk in the county where the adoption took place. The county clerk can provide information about filing a petition for a court order to unseal your Arizona adoption records. Usually, you need to provide a compelling reason to unseal the records.
Are Arizona Adoption Records Public?
No. Arizona adoption records are closed and sealed for 100 years. You can’t get Arizona public adoption records without legal intervention.
However, Arizona offers a Confidential Intermediary program for adoptees and biological relatives who want to connect. This program allows a court-appointed intermediary to access court records. The intermediary can then facilitate contact between an adoptee and their birth parents (or biological siblings) if both parties consent to share information.
If you’re an Arizona adoptee or a biological relative, you can initiate a request through the Confidential Intermediary program. Birth parents can also update their contact preferences by submitting a form to the Bureau of Vital Records. On the form, you can indicate whether you want to be contacted directly or through an intermediary.
How Do I Get My Original Birth Certificate if I Was Adopted in Arizona?
If you were born between June 20, 1968 and Sept. 28, 2021, you need a court order to get your original birth certificate. In 2021, Arizona revised a state statute to allow future adoptees to access their pre-adoptive birth certificates. Unfortunately, the revised statute doesn’t retroactively apply to Arizona adoptees born in the 53 years before 2021.
If you’re an adoptee born before June 20, 1968, you can request your original birth certificate through the Arizona Department of Health Services. You must complete the form and mail it to the state Bureau of Vital Records with a copy of a valid government-issued photo ID. There’s a $5 fee to get your original birth certificate.
Arizona adoptees born after Sept. 28, 2021, will be eligible to get their original birth certificates once they turn 18.
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16. Kemphughes : I was adopted at the age of 11 months. By my adoptive parents Marlene and Lewis Kemp. I was born at John C Lincoln hospital. I want to find my real parents. I am curious about my family background and heritage.
17. Mdouglas413 : Searching for an adopted sibling. Father would be Hugh "Butch" William Allison Jr‚ u sure of mothers name‚ possibly Jones or Clutts. Was told she had red hair.
18. Nstrong : Born 1944, female. I found out I was adopted from relatives and friends who knew after my parents died. Wisconsin adoption records are sealed. They told me that my record may be in another state. Dr. O’Briens is on my birth record. His daughter was the adoption agent for the county in Mauston, Wisc.. I think My Birth Father came to se me in 1956. My brother and I were sent upstairs right before the man arrived and told NOT TO COME DOWN while the man was there. I started to come downstairs to get my crochet yarn and stoped as I knew I would be in trouble. The only word I heard the man say was ADOPTION. I thought maybe mom and dad were thinking of adopting a child. The discussion was I could tell upsetting to them after the man left. My adopted father was killed in a car wreck that same year. There was no money from his death. Later HIS mother passed leaving me and my brothers some money. When I got my savings account book as a savings had been set up for my brothers also when she died. Only when I got married and saw my savings book did I notice that my account was started with a large amount $1000 the in the summer before my adopted father was killed in a car wreck and his mother had died after that. Then I looked at my brothers savings and theirs both started after my adopted father’s mother passed. I always wondered why I had all that money more. Then when my adopted mother passed and I was told by my brother that I was adopted did I think about the man who came to our house and I heard him speak the word ADOPTION. I desperately wanted to find out and went to Wisconsin every year starting 1982. Father on my birth record shows Everett S. Sharp, Mother Margaret Casey (which Margaret was never a Casey that was a stepfather when she would have been about 11 which all of her school records showed her last name as Margaret Rodeck. Mary Casey was her mother and my Grandmother.
19. Nimrodsf : My birth fathers name was Ramon Alday, my mother Mary Helen Pierce
20. MyFirst : I gave birth to a beautiful boy in Tucson, AZ. I used LDS social services. He was adopted by a couple in Texas. If he’s looking for me - I’m here!
21. 0310 : My last name was Hobbs. I was adopted when I was 8
22. KristyHutchinson : Birth mother name is Karen Ann Miller‚ her mother’s name was Mercy Ann LeBeouf. My sibling would have been born in 1972‚ in Tennessee‚ Texas‚ or Arkansas‚ or possibly Louisiana or Arizona. Karen went to a home for unwed mothers.
23. Pheeman43 : Looking for sibling born in August 1962 in Phoenix Arizona.
24. Mblbarker : I want to find my birth family
25. Ethansdad1 : I want to find my biological parents. I was born in Yima, Arizona.
26. Lookingformybabys86 : Im looking for my 4 children removed in kingman Arizona. Emmanuel, Makea, Elliajah, and Issiah.This is mama. My name is Jennifer. Your name last name before adoption was Morgan. I love and miss you so much and hope to find you soon.
27. Coleby_phillips : I am looking for my birth mother and possible biological siblings. Her name is Monica Encinas. She would have given birth to me in 1993 in Phoenix‚ AZ‚ when she was between 19-21 years of age. She is of Mexican heritage.
28. KARENWATERFALL : Contact me I’m just not me without you. tucson arizona. waterfall family. they’re all kin
29. Friendinglory : I am looking to reunite with my birth family. I am told my mother was forced to give me up. She was 15 years old. My father was said to be 17. They brought her from California to Arizona to give birth and have me adopted out only a few days later through private adoption.
30. Schaidshaw02 : I was born and adopted in Bullhead City, AZ. I don’t know any identifying info on my birth parents, other then they were mostly likely between 15-18 at the time. The adoption was immediate and I was taken home to Kingman, AZ the following day.
