Texas

  

Texas has a mutual consent registry provision.

Registries are established within the Department of Human Resources and licensed agencies to facilitate contact between adult adoptees (21 years), birth parents, and biological siblings. In the case of partial "matches" (one birth parent but not the other) information will nonetheless be released under specified circumstances indicating that the birth father was adjudicated "unknown," was not identified, or has not legitimated the adoptee.

There is a one-hour mandatory counseling provision.

For registry information, contact: Department of Human Services, P. O. Box 2960, Austin, Texas 78769. Telephone: (512) 450-3302. 
Tex. Hum. Res. Code Ann., Tit. 2-D, Ch. 49. 

UPDATE:  
Confidential intermediary system beginning September 1, 1995  
* Age for TX Registry lowered from 21 to 18.  
* Texas Central Adoption Registry will take direct applications. If your agency has a registry you can still register with them also.  
* Siblings allowed to register with agency registries.  
* The mandatory counseling session has been moved from prior to entering the registry to just before contact is initiated.  
* Birth parents now have 48 hours post-partum recovery period before they can be asked to sign adoption papers.  
* Texas State Adoption Registry/Central Adoption Registry  
Texas Dept. of Protective and Regulatory Services  
MC Y-943  
P.O. Box 149030  
Austin, TX 78714-9030  
(512) 834-4485  
* Applications for the registry canNOT be e-mailed, but you can email a request for a registry application to be snail mailed to you. Send your mailing address, telephone number, date of birth of the applicant, and enough information to track down the appropriate agency/registry that handled the adoption to: <patric.molina.y.vedia@indus.dhs.state.tx.us>. Allow 4 weeks for the form to be sent.  

 

Search and Support Groups

ALMA Chapter
Peggy Perleins
P.O. Box 14089
Austin, TX 78761-4089

Adoption Knowledge Affiliates
P.O. Box 402033
Austin, TX 78704
Telephone: (512) 442-8252

Marywood Search Support Group
510 W. 26th Street
Austin TX 78705
Telephone: (512) 472-9251

Orphan Voyage
Linda Crenwelge
1305 Augustine Court
College Station, TX 77840
e-mail: lsc@ag-eco.tamu.edu

Triangle Search
B. Scott
5730 Crest Grove
Corpus Christi, TX 78415

Adoption Reunion Registry
Dallas, TX
phone: 214 737 4123
e-mail: adoptionreunion@mailcity.com

Love, Roots & Wings
Beverly Cates
10432 Achilles
El Paso, TX 79924

Triad Support Group
4208 Roxbury
El Paso, TX 79922

Focus - an adoption reunion support group
4503 Bridge Street
Fort Worth, TX 76103
Telephone: (817) 485-9764 Larry & Becky Marin
Telephone: (817) 396-4232 Michael Black

Texas Adoption Search Services Search/Intermediary
P.O. BOX 14142
3408 Wendell Dr
Fort Worth, TX 76117
Telephone: 817- 834-9713
fax: 817-834-0001
e-mail: TXSEARCH@FLASH.NET

Member AAC, I am an intermediary for Tarrant County; listed in the Blue Book; experienced searcher for over 20 years.

Orphan Voyage
Peggy Dorn
5811 Southminister
Houston, TX 77035

Valley Chapter of ALMA
Marcia Morehead, South Texas Coordinator
P.O. Box 720301
McAllen, TX 78504
Telephone: (956) 682-8748
e-mail: mamm@swbell.net or Mmorehead@aol.com

South Texas includes any areas from Corpus Christi to Laredo, Texas and south. Contact for meeting information. Meetings open to adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents/siblings, professionals and anyone else interested in adoption issues.

Adoption Search and Support
Box 371
Pasadena, TX 77501

Adoption Triad Forum
P.O. Box 832161
Richardson, TX 75081