Ohio § 3107.391 Biological parent's name redaction request form

Ohio Statutes

§ 3107.391 — Biological parent's name redaction request form

Ohio § 3107.391

Title 31Domestic Relations-Children

Ch. 3107Adoption

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3107.391 (2026).

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(A)A biological parent who had a biological parent's name redaction request form accepted by the department of health between March 20, 2014, and March 20, 2015, may request at any time that the department remove the form from the adoption file of the adopted person to whom the form pertains if the biological parent decides to permit the biological parent's name to be included in a copy of the contents of the adoption file that a person receives under section3107.38of the Revised Code. The department shall remove the form from the adoption file if the biological parent provides the department all of the following:

(1)Two items of identification of the biological parent;

(2)Information the department needs to be able to identify the adoption file of the adopted person to whom the form

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(A) A biological parent who had a biological parent's name redaction request form accepted by the department of health between March 20, 2014, and March 20, 2015, may request at any time that the department remove the form from the adoption file of the adopted person to whom the form pertains if the biological parent decides to permit the biological parent's name to be included in a copy of the contents of the adoption file that a person receives under section3107.38of the Revised Code. The department shall remove the form from the adoption file if the biological parent provides the department all of the following:

(1) Two items of identification of the biological parent;

(2) Information the department needs to be able to identify the adoption file of the adopted person to whom the form pertains;

(3) A notarized attestation that the biological parent is the biological parent of the adopted person to whom the form pertains.

(B) When the department removes a biological parent's name redaction request form from an adoption file under division (A) of this section, the department shall destroy the form.

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