General Information
- How to request information
- Controlling legislation: Child and Family Services Act
- Yukon Legislative Assembly
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Political, Search and Reunion
- Canada Open Records (Facebook) (Bastard Nation Partner)
Access
Age of access: 19 years
Adult adoptee access to their original full name: Conditional – Subject to reunion
Adult adoptee access to their own OBC in full: Conditional – Only after reunion and mutual agreement.
Adult adoptee access to other identifying information about their natural parents: Conditional – Only after reunion and
Natural parents of adult adoptee access to identifying information: Conditional – Only after reunion and mutual agreement.
Disclosure Vetoes: Can be placed by:a parent named on the original birth registration an adult adoptee Expires 2 years after the death of the person who filed the veto. (As far as is known, there is no system in place to find out when this happens.)
Contact Preferences or Contact Vetoes: Contact vetos, punishable by up to one year in jail and/or a $10,000 fine, an be placed by:a parent named on the original birth registration an adult adoptee. Expires 2 years after the death of the person who filed the veto.
Passive registry: Not available
Active search available: available to a natural parent of an adult adoptee
Links
- Yukon opens adoption records, Yukon News, December 2, 2009
- Children of Survivors | Born an ‘it’ and living with abandonment. CBC News, November 8, 2018
- ‘I gave life’: How traditional adoption fosters identity and belonging. StoriesNorth, October 4, 2019
Updated April 17, 2020
