This is a site that is all about Adoption Rights, focusing on Texas adoption rights. We will be posting links to current legislation, information about how to contact Representatives and links to other useful sites. Our goal is to educate people about what's happening in Texas with regards to adoption laws, and discuss what that means for adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents. Please respond to posts with comments, suggestions, questions and helpful links. Thank You!
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posted by K at 11:48 AM
10 Comments:
I have some questions and I'm hoping that maybe you might have some answers, it's regarding adoption, please write me back.
Thanks
Priscila
8:52 AM
An adoptive parent didn't want her 16 year old adopted daughter anymore. She called and said she would send her to me. She has signed forms that give me guardianship of this child. She does not pay anything but get money from Social security for this child. The child is on Medicaid but the adoptive mother won't change the address. Is this legal?
7:31 AM
The experience I have had over the past three months in dealing with the Texas Department of Health Services has been an education in bureaucracy. You can jump through all their hoops - cross the t's and dot the i's and still get nothing but a run around. I got the court order they asked for - the judge ordered my records unsealed and a certified copy made of the entire content - even with all that I can't get by one woman at the TDSHS nd get a copy of my birth certificate!
7:17 AM
I feel for each and every one of you that are trying to cut through the bureaucracy that is the Texas Dept. of Health Services - Been there and still tryin' to do that. Check my blog: http://texasadpoteerights.blogspot.com/
and see what I've tried so far! To no avail./ Even when you find out everything they claimed they want you still haven't done it right.
1:27 PM
Yesterday I sent an email to everyone who even looked important at the Texas Department of Health Services. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Evidently the flood of emails I sent to everyone who even looked important at the Texas Department of State Health Services finally got to someone whose Give-a-damn wasn't broke! The "State of Texas" called me this morning! Someone much farther up the food chain than Ms "Why dontcha' tell someone who cares" is ending a "non-certified" copy of my birth certificate by overnight courier!
9:47 AM
You have pointed out some great points. Glad you made this very relevant topic for those who are trying to find this out. Likewise thanks for sharing this. Keep it up!
7:38 PM
Can you please update your blog to include this 2015 legislative session. We have new legislation!! HB 984 and since people still use your site for a reference I think it would be helpful.
12:09 PM
Can someone please tell me what hoops I have to jump through to get a certified copy of my birth certificate. I have no desire to know who the birth parents are, I'm 60 years old about to turn 61 and found out three years ago that I was adopted. I'm just trying to go on a cruise
1:17 PM
hello I am 47 i have been trying every agency in texas and everyone says I dont exist. I need to find my biological information.I was born june 15 1969 in Atlanta Texas. I was adoped at 15 months old in suphur springs texas. This is all the info. I have. I have some very sick adult kids and I have a genetic heart defect. I need to find all the health information I can. I also would love to find my parents and be apart of their life.
12:36 PM
Lisa Brockmeier - I feel your pain! Texas is the very worst, in my opinion, to deal with. I tried everything I could think of - I sent emails to everyone whose name was listed. I finally went to the county I was adopted in and filed a request. For some reason, the judge there felt sorry for me and ordered my records released. You'll probably have a lot better chance of getting information locally where the legal stuff was done than in trying to deal with Texas.
3:32 AM
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