#flipthescript 13: Healing & Hope for an Adoptee

This week I am featured on Lori Lavender Luz's adoption blog: flipthescript series, where she again talks about my memoir along with some recent legal updates concerning the upcoming date in January, 2017 where adult adoptees born in New Jersey can have access to their original birth certificates. Original birth certificates in the state of New Jersey are currently still under lock and key. Click here to read and go to Lori's page.

Adult Adoptees in NJ will have access to their original Birth Certificates in January 2017!

It's finally going to happen for adult adopted individuals in New Jersey-access to our very own original birth certificate.  Even though I am in reunion with both my birth mother and birth father for over twenty years, I still do not have the legal right to view or access my own original certificates that pertain to me-my life, my own birth. That is until this January!
Although I haven't been the biggest fan of Governor Chris Christie, I will say thank you from the bottom of my heart to him and the NJ state legislature for passing this bill. I am deeply grateful to them for allowing adult adopted individuals to have the right and the dignity to obtain their own personal records.

For those adopted in NJ here is where to go to access your own original birth certificate:

http://nj-care.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/reg-41-newjersey-original-birth-certificate-application.pdf

Once you downloaded and filled out the form, mail to:

Office of Vital Statistics and Registry
Adoption Request Unit
PO Box 370
Trenton, NJ 08625-0370

You need to include two additional things:

• Proof of Identity (acceptable forms of identity listed in in the instructions section of the application form)
• $25.00 check made out to the State Treasurer of New Jersey

Thank you New Jersey!!!!!