36-1-136 - Notification made as part of search, contact or identifying requests. - Tennessee Statutes

36-1-136. Notification made as part of search, contact or identifying requests.

(a)  (1)  Any notification required to be made as part of a search or a contact or an identifying request pursuant to this part for an adopted person or a person for whom records are maintained as described under § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A), shall be made with such persons who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older, except as otherwise provided by § 36-1-135, or with the legal representative of such persons;

     (2)  Any notification for search or contact requests involving the biological or legal relative, who is under twenty-one (21) years of age, of the adopted person or person for whom records are maintained as described under § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A), shall be with the parents or legal representative of such biological or legal relative; and

     (3)  Any notification involving any other persons who are subject to contact for search requests or contact requests under this part shall be made with those persons who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older or with the known legal representative of any such persons.

(b)  Any decision to permit contact or to permit the disclosure of information authorized by this part to be disclosed under subsection (a) shall be made, as the case may be:

     (1)  By the adopted person or a person for whom records are maintained as described under § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A) and in subdivision (a)(1), twenty-one (21) years of age or older, or such person's legal representative, except as otherwise provided by § 36-1-135;

     (2)  By the parents or by the legal representative of the biological or legal relative in subdivision (a)(2), who is under twenty-one (21) years of age, of the adopted person or person for whom records are maintained as described under § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A); or

     (3)  By those other persons in subdivision (a)(3) who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older or by the known legal representative of any such persons.

[Acts 1995, ch. 532, § 1; 1996, ch. 1054, § 122.]