How do I request court permission to access adoption records?
The office provides a form, Adoption Search Questionnaire, on this website. Filing this form is the first step that must be taken to obtain any information from the adoption files. Further communications and directions will then come from Orphans’ Court Administration (a different office than Clerk of the Orphans’ Court). That office is the next link between you and the Court.

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1. What services does the Clerk of the Orphans’ Court provide?
2. I was adopted and want to locate my birth parents. How do I get access to the adoption records?
3. How do I request court permission to access adoption records?
4. I adopted a child who was born in a foreign country. How do I get a Pennsylvania birth certificate for the child?
5. How do I get appointed as the Guardian of a Minor?
6. How do I get appointed as the Guardian of an Incapacitated Person?