Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts

Adoptee search

What are my rights as an adoptee searching for a birth mother? Am allowed to contact family members ? Especially to try to get her phone number and other genealogical information?


Asked on 3/30/09, 7:39 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Christopher Pearsall Law Office of Christopher A. Pearsall, Esquire

Re: Adoptee search

Rights are a legal entitlement. As an adoptee you have no specific "rights". However, there is nothing prohibiting you from searching for your birth mother by speaking with family members or trying to find genealogical information by means that are available to any public citizen.

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Answered on 3/31/09, 6:28 pm


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