Montana Code Annotated 2001

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     42-6-102. Disclosure of records -- nonidentifying information -- consensual release. (1) The department or authorized person or agency may disclose:
     (a) nonidentifying information to an adoptee, an adoptive or birth parent, or an extended family member of an adoptee or birth parent; and
     (b) identifying information to a court-appointed confidential intermediary upon order of the court or as provided in 50-15-121 and 50-15-122.
     (2) Information may be disclosed to any person who consents in writing to the release of confidential information to other interested persons who have also consented. Identifying information pertaining to an adoption involving an adoptee who is still a child may not be disclosed based upon a consensual exchange of information unless the adoptee's adoptive parent consents in writing.

     History: En. Sec. 142, Ch. 480, L. 1997.

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