{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-15-7-5.1","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-7-5.1","heading":"Contact preference form information.","body":"Upon providing consent to an adoption, the biological parent(s) shall be informed that, consistent with § 23-3-15(g)(1), an adoptee may obtain a non-certified copy of his/her unaltered, original certificate of birth upon his/her eighteenth birthday, and that the birth parent is allowed and authorized to file a contact preference form with the division of vital records as provided in § 23-3-15(g)(2).","path":["Title 15 Domestic Relations","Chapter 7 Adoption of Children"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE15/15-7/15-7-5.1.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T19:55:35Z","sha256":"baa6ac17be9016db2d8768a588ae9b5a2cb0bea8a33ae0e9da13152169b5c9a0","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-15-7-5","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-15-7-6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}