Court Reports of Adoption

(a)For each adoption decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction, the court shall require the preparation of a certificate of adoption on a form prescribed and furnished by the Guam Registrar of Vital Statistics. The certificate shall include such facts as are necessary to locate and identify the certificate of birth of the person adopted; provide information necessary to establish a new certificate of birth of the person adopted, and shall identify the order of adoption and be certified by the clerk of court. For a person born in a foreign country who is not a citizen of the United States, and for whom a final order of adoption has been decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction, the court shall require the preparation of a certificate of foreign birth as provided in § 3215.1.

(b)The certificate of adoption shall be filed with the original record of birth, if such record exists, which shall remain as a part of the permanent records of the Office of Vital Statistics.

(c)Whenever an adoption decree is amended or annulled, the clerk of the court shall prepare a certificate thereof, which shall include such facts as are necessary to identify the original adoption report, and the facts amended in the adoption decree as shall be necessary to properly amend the birth record.

(d)When the Guam Registrar of Vital Statistics receives a record of adoption or annulment of adoption or amendment thereof from a court for a person born elsewhere, such record shall be forwarded to the appropriate registration authority in the place of birth of the child adopted.