Texas does have a Confidential Intermediary (CI) Program, be sure to ask
about it when you call them.
Court records are closed upon adoption being final and a court order is required
to release information from them. Many agencies will release non-identifying
information to an adult involved party. AGE OF MAJORITY: 18 years old
Provides for a voluntary registry of adoptees, birth siblings and birth parents
over age 21.
Section 16.032: Birth parents and/or the child placing agency will compile
the health, social, educational, and genetic histories of the adoptee. This
will be provided to the adoptive parents at or before placement of the adoptee,
and to the adoptee at age of majority, and to surviving spouse or progeny
upon death of adoptee.
District Courts are the courts of jurisdiction