GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Friday was “Opening Day” for adoptees born in Ohio: thousands of adoption records sealed for 51 years are now accessible. Ohio law was changed in 2013 naming March 20, 2015 as ...

Florida resident Shannon Nibarger, who gave a child up for adoption through Catholic social services in Wyoming in 1993, says her daughter would have to go before a judge there and get a court order ...

LANSING — State auditors will get access to the confidential adoption records they seek for their review of child placement programs, the Court of Claims ruled Thursday, a decision that should allow ...

The decision to seek out biological parents or children can be tense, difficult and at times impossible. How a person goes about finding and reconnecting with their biological family depends on who ...

An adopted girl and her adoptive family separately took legal action against the state.

The defense for Charles Arens, who was charged with first-degree murder in the shaking death of his infant son last August, has asked a judge for access to adoption records that would reveal the ...

Oregon mother says she would have never found her son if not for adoption records law change Karen Gjerning talks about reuniting with her son four decades after she gave him up for adoption thanks to ...

PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) -- Since 1985, Pennsylvania has closed adoption records to adoptees, but a a new bill introduced by State Representative Kerry A. Benninghoff would allow adoptees to ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill allowing adult adoptees to access their original birth certificate passed through the Utah Legislature Friday with a final vote in the House. HB129, sponsored by Rep. Raymond ...

Brad Watts didn t just meet his mother – he also met his siblings as well as six nieces and nephews he never knew existed In 1975, 14-year-old Lori Smith gave birth to her son and held him for twenty ...