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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 63
ADOPTION
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63.0541 Public records exemption for the Florida Putative Father Registry.
(1) All information contained in the Florida Putative Father Registry is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(2) Information made confidential and exempt by this section shall be disclosed to:
(a) An adoption entity, upon the filing of a request for a diligent search of the Florida Putative Father Registry in connection with the planned adoption of a child.
(b) The registrant unmarried biological father, upon receipt of a notarized request for a copy of his registry entry only.
(c) The birth mother, upon receipt of a notarized request for a copy of any registry entry in which she is identified as the birth mother.
(d) The court, upon issuance of a court order concerning a petitioner acting pro se in an action under this chapter.
(3) The database comprising the Florida Putative Father Registry shall remain separate from all other databases.
History.ss. 1, 2, ch. 2003-56; ss. 1, 2, ch. 2008-168.

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In Re: Amendments to the Florida Supreme Court Approved Fam. Law Forms, 173 So. 3d 19 (Fla. 2015).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 40 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 163, 2015 Fla. LEXIS 583, 2015 WL 1343088

...This is an action for adoption of a minor by the child’s stepparent, who is the Petitioner. . 2. Section 63.054, Florida Statutes, requires that in every adoption, a search of the Putative Father Registry maintained by the Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics be conducted. Section 63.0541, Florida Statutes, makes information maintained by the Registry confidential and exempt from public disclosure, except that it may be disclosed to adoption entities, registrant unmarried biological fathers, and the cou...
..., who is proceeding pro se. 2. Section 63.054, Florida Statutes, requires that in every adoption, a search of the Putative Father Registry maintained by the Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics be conducted. Section 63.0541, Florida Statutes, makes information maintained by the Registry confidential and exempt, except that it may be disclosed to adoption entities, registrant unmarried biological fathers, the birth mother, and the court, u...
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Amendments to Florida Supreme Court Approved Fam. Law Forms—Stepparent Adoption Forms, 870 So. 2d 791 (Fla. 2004).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2004 WL 583720

...2 Newly enacted section 63.054(7), Florida Statutes (2003), provides that in each termination of parental rights proceeding or adoption under chapter 63, the petitioner must search the Putative Father Registry. See ch.2003-58, § 11 at 471, Laws of Fla. Because section 63.0541, Florida Statutes (2003), contains a public records exsmption for the Putative Father Registry and provides that information made confidential *793 may be disclosed upon issuance of a court order concerning a petitioner acting pro se,...
...This is an action for adoption of a minor by the child’s stepparent, Petitioner, who is proceeding pro se. 2. Section 63.054, Florida Statutes, requires that in every adoption, a search of the Putative Father Registry maintained by the Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics be conducted. Section 63.0541, Florida Statutes, makes information maintained by the Registry confidential and exempt from public disclosure, except that it may be disclosed to adoption entities, registrant unmarried biological fathers, and the court, upon issuance of a court order concerning a petitioner acting pro se....
...This is an action for adoption of a minor by the child’s stepparent, Petitioner, who is proceeding pro se. 2. Section 63.054, Florida Statutes, requires that in every adoption, a search of the Putative Father Registry maintained by the Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics be conducted. Section 63.0541, Florida Statutes, makes information maintained by the Registry confidential and exempt, except that it may be disclosed to *806 adoption entities, registrant unmarried biological fathers, and the court, upon issuance of a court order concerning a petitioner acting pro se....

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