COLUMBUS, Ohio – Thousands of Ohio adoptees are about to take advantage of a law giving them access to their adoption files and birth certificates. Beginning Friday, individuals who were adopted ...

Birth certificates and adoption records can no longer be used by public-aid applicants to prove they are legally in the U.S. following a spike in “seemingly fraudulent” documents used to obtain driver ...

Q. When an adoption occurs, is a new birth certificate issued listing the names of the adoptive parent in place of the listed parent? A.M., Pougkeepsie A. Adoption is a legal proceeding whereby the ...

Since a new law took effect in August, the Louisiana Vital Records Registry has processed more than 500 requests for original birth certificates from adults who were adopted as children. With access ...