Section 162.406 - Registration Eligibility(a) An adoptee who is 18 years of age or older may apply to a registry for information about the adoptee's birth parents and biological siblings.(b) A birth parent who is 18 years of age or older may apply to a registry for information about an adoptee who is a child by birth of the birth parent.(c) An alleged father who is 18 years of age or older and who acknowledges paternity but is not, at the time of application, a birth father may register as a birth father but may not otherwise be recognized as a birth father for the purposes of this subchapter unless:(1) the adoptee's birth mother in her application identifies him as the adoptee's biological father; and(2) additional information concerning the adoptee obtained from other sources is not inconsistent with his claim of paternity.(d) A biological sibling who is 18 years of age or older may apply to a registry for information about the person's adopted biological siblings.(e) Only birth parents, adoptees, and biological siblings may apply for information through a registry.(f) A person, including an authorized agency, may not apply for information through a registry as an agent, attorney, or representative of an adoptee, birth parent, or biological sibling.Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 968, Sec. 3, eff. 9/1/1995.Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. 4/20/1995.