My question involves adoption law for the State of: Alabama
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My question involves adoption law for the State of: Alabama
You're going to have to explain this in more detail, but the answer is no. While Alabama will give you a copy of your original birth certificate if you are adopted, it has no LEGAL bearing. You can't undo your adoption (from your end). You can apply for a legal order of name change to change your name back to your birth name, but it goes through the same procedure as any other adult name change.
I recently tried that, and was told that the b.c -which is stamped ,, it says it was filed in 1987 even has my adopted parents info... But my adoption records say 1994 ... The Social Security office told me it wasn't a legal b.c!! They have me currently jumping through hoops to prove who I was born named as and then to prove my adoption!!! All just to change last name to married name
So what I want to do is just have adopted parents removed and bio-parents added back. My original social security card had never been changed and it was still my birth name
Short answer: you can't.
Personally i would would love to see birth certificates be exactly what they were originally created to be (including the biological father as opposed to the legal father); a recording of the facts at the time of birth but somewhere along the line somebody decided they would not be a birth record but an updateable document where you change it as facts changed in your life.
So, the only way to change your parents on your birth certificate is to change who your parents are. I'm not certain an adult adoption would cause a change of the parents names on an adults birth certificate but that is the only way to change a persons legal parentage
As I stated, your original (pre-adoption) birth certificate is without any legal meaning. Your adoptive birth certificate is the real one. The SSA can't change this. You need a court order. When you get it get a few extra certified copies of the order. You will need to show them to (and perhaps leave them with) people like the DMV, the SSA, etc.. to prove what your name now legally is.