Ind. Code § 31-19-25-18.5

Current through P.L. 171-2024

Section 31-19-25-18.5 - Contact and disclosure prohibited

An attorney, a licensed child placing agency, and a local office may not contact an adoptee, a birth parent, or an adoptive parent or disclose identifying information upon a request under section 18 of this chapter if the request involves an adoptee to whom both of the following apply:

(1) The adoptee is less than twenty-one (21) years of age.

(2) The adoptee's name is on the list provided to the Indiana department of health under IC 31-25-2-22.

IC 31-19-25-18.5

Amended by P.L. 56-2023,SEC. 293, eff. 7/1/2023.

Amended by P.L. 128-2012, SEC. 81, eff. 7/1/2012.

Added by P.L. 191-2011, SEC. 51, eff. 7/1/2011.