{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-48-23-102","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 48-23-102","heading":"Legislative purpose.","body":"The purpose of this article is to:\n(1) Set up a mutual consent voluntary adoption registry where birth parents and adult adoptees may register their willingness to the release of identifying information to each other;\n(2) To provide for the disclosure of such identifying information to birth parents or adoptees, or both, through a social worker employed by a licensed adoption agency, provided each birth parent and the adult adoptee voluntarily registers on his or her own; and\n(3) To provide for the transmission of nonidentifying health and social and genetic history to the adult adoptees, birth parents and other specified persons; and\n(4) To provide for disclosure of identifying information for cause shown.","path":["CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC RELATIONS.","ARTICLE 23. VOLUNTARY ADOPTION REGISTRY."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/48-23-102/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:30:32Z","sha256":"548acfff2ed0895edfdf08c3c4ba845021f1375e4b85022968b1fb5a9ea4717c","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-48-23-101","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-48-23-201"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}