Michigan
Sealed: unknown
Access Status: Restricted
- Tiered
- Adoptees born on or after May 28, 1945, but before September 12, 1980: not entitled to the original birth certificate except by court order. May use the registry to find identifying information but does not include any access to the original birth certificate;
- Adoptees born before May 28, 1945: entitled to the original birth certificate but only if a birth parent does not veto disclosure;
- Adoptees born on or after September 12, 1980: entitled to the original birth certificate but only if a birth parent does not veto disclosure;
Through a special arrangement with the Adoptee Rights Law Center, Bastard Nation is linking our individual state pages to ARLC state access law links and summaries. In addition. our state pages include information specific to Bastard Nation actions and activities in each state.ead about current OBC access.
Read about current OBC access legislation with links to current and past years bills at our”Keep Informed” legislative pages (middle sidebar.)
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2223 Legislation: SB4529 (OBC); HB5148/HB5149 (OBC)
2022 Legislation: SB0708; SB0709; SB0710; SB0711 (Safe Have Baby Boxes)
2021 Legislation: SB 0708. SB 0709, SB 0710 (Safe Haven Baby Boxes)
2020 Legislation: HB4523 (Sarfe Haven Baby Boxes)
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Michigan Adop[tee Rights Coalition FAQ HB5148/HB51489( 2023)
November 9, 2023: Victory in House 99-8
LINKS
- Bills would make it easier for Michigan adoptees to get records, WOOD-TV, October 23, 2023
- Adoptees push for equal access to birth records in Michigan, MLive, October 27, 2023
- Bastard Nation Letter of Support for HB5148/HB5149. October 31, 2023
- Michigan: On the Winning Track, Bastard Nation, November 13, 2023
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- Thanks to Michigan adoption law, my sister will die never knowing her past, Detroit Free Press, January 3, 2020
- Crittenton General Hospital’s forgotten legacy of serving single mothers and promoting adoption in Michigan by Rudy Owens, nd
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- A Michigan adoptee’s decade-long fight to get birth records from the state. NPR Michigan Radio, June 11, 2018. (Rudy Owens)
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- Adult adoptee searches for heritage not only for himself but for his kids, NPR Michigan Radio, February 2, 2015
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- Oh, Give Me a Break! by Robin Westbrook, Motherhood Deleted, July 2, 2008
- Michigan Warning: HB 4896, 4897/6287 are not clean bills by Anita Field, Daily Bastardette, July 1, 2008
Updated November 2018
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Updated November 14, 2023
Greetings!!
Am greatful the way you are protecting human life under certain circumstances.
I have suffered a lot from family neglect, torture and shame as a result from lack of love from the family. This has been because my mother produced me before she got married when she was still young. I grew up in the hands of my grandmother but it has been a struggle. In the society basterds suffer and no one to care for them.
They miss a chance to go to school and achieving in life is indeed difficult.
Please connect and empower me and my family so that we aim at Helping this group of children and families with basterds to access their rights.
Best regards.
Godfrey Byamukama
Uganda
I am currently trying to get a step parent adoption record with NO HIDDEN information. YET, Muskegon County Court refuses to release the records without Petitioning the state for release of information. Except for a piece of paper stating I was adopted by these people. Without any proof it’s all hearsay. It would be easier to vacate the adoption at this point. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. HB 5148 & HB 5149 have passed through the house. The senate is sitting on this bill.