Back Kentucky Administrative Regulations KAR 922.1.100 Section 12 # 3 - regarding background info
Section 12. Request for Information from Adoption Records. (1) Identifying information from the cabinet’s record may be released only upon written order by the court upon application to the circuit court that granted the adoption by an adoptee, twenty-one (21) years of age or older.
(2) If the birth parent has not previously filed consent for release of identifying information with the circuit court, the judge may:
(a) Issue a court order requiring the cabinet to conduct a search for each birth parent as identified on the original birth certificate; and
(b) Determine the parent’s desire concerning the release of identifying information from the record.
(3) Upon receipt of written request by the adult adoptee or the adoptive family, non-identifying health and background information may be released by the cabinet from a closed adoption record.
(4) If a request is received from an adoptee, eighteen (18) years of age or older, for contact with an adult pre-adoptive birth sibling separated during finalization of a closed adoption, cabinet staff shall:
(a) Review the adoption record; and
(b) Release identifying information if a mutual request for contact is contained within the record.
(5) If a request is received from a birth relative seeking an adoptee, either adult or minor, information may be given that adoption did occur and reassurance of the well being of the adoptee at last contact may be confirmed, but cabinet staff shall not contact an adoptee or adoptive family at the request of the birth family.
(6) If an adult adoptee seeks contact with the birth family, cabinet staff shall inform the adult adoptee of a birth relative’s interest. (26 Ky.R. 1596; Am. 1847; eff. 4-12-2000.)
Kentucky Revised Statutes 199.520 section 4 item a & b
199.520 Judgment -- Prerequisites -- Orders -- Name and legal status of child -Health history of biological parents and relatives to be given to adoptive parents.
(1) After hearing the case, the
court shall enter a judgment of adoption, if it finds that the facts stated in
the petition were established; that all legal requirements, including
jurisdiction, relating to the adoption have been complied with; that the
petitioners are of good moral character, of reputable standing in the community
and of ability to properly maintain and educate the child; and that the best
interest of the child will be promoted by the adoption and that the child is
suitable for adoption. In the judgment, the name of the child shall be changed
to conform with the prayer of the petition. The judgment and all orders required
to be entered and recorded in the order book, including the caption, shall
contain only the names of the petitioners and the proposed adopted name of the
child, without any reference to its former name or the names of its birth
parents.
(2) Upon entry of the judgment
of adoption, from and after the date of the filing of the petition, the child
shall be deemed the child of petitioners and shall be considered for purposes of
inheritance and succession and for all other legal considerations, the natural
child of the parents adopting it the same as if born of their bodies. Upon
granting an adoption, all legal relationship between the adopted child and the
biological parents shall be terminated except the relationship of a biological
parent who is the spouse of an adoptive parent.
(3) The clerk of the court
shall notify the cabinet of any action of the court with respect to entering a
judgment granting an adoption, the amendment of an adoption, or the denial or
dismissal of a petition for adoption.
(4) (a)
The
health history of biological parents and blood relatives of the adopted person,
in writing, on a standardized form, provided by the cabinet, if known, shall be
given by the cabinet or child-placing agency which has the information to the
adoptive parents and to the Circuit Court not later than the date of
finalization of the adoption proceedings. This information shall include the
results of any tests for HIV or hepatitis A, B, and C; and
(b)
The information provided for
in paragraph (a) of this subsection, if known, shall, upon the request in person
or in writing of the adult adopted person be made available in writing to that
person. The information shall not be made available if it is of a nature that
would tend to identify the biological parents of the adopted person except as
provided in KRS 199.570 and 199.572.
Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 432, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 242, sec. 8, effective July 15, 1994. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 43, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 5, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 3. -- Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 157, sec. 14, effective February 27, 1956.--- Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 15.