Section 9200 Of Chapter 7. Disclosure Of Information From California Family Law Code >> Division 13. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 7.
9200
. (a) The petition, relinquishment or consent, agreement,
order, report to the court from any investigating agency, and any
power of attorney and deposition filed in the office of the clerk of
the court pursuant to this part is not open to inspection by any
person other than the parties to the proceeding and their attorneys
and the department, except upon the written authority of the judge of
the superior court. A judge of the superior court may not authorize
anyone to inspect the petition, relinquishment or consent, agreement,
order, report to the court from any investigating agency, or power
of attorney or deposition or any portion of any of these documents,
except in exceptional circumstances and for good cause approaching
the necessitous. The petitioner may be required to pay the expenses
for preparing the copies of the documents to be inspected.
(b) Upon written request of any party to the proceeding and upon
the order of any judge of the superior court, the clerk of the court
shall not provide any documents referred to in this section for
inspection or copying to any other person, unless the name of the
child's birth parents or any information tending to identify the
child's birth parents is deleted from the documents or copies
thereof.
(c) Upon the request of the adoptive parents or the child, a clerk
of the court may issue a certificate of adoption that states the
date and place of adoption, the child's birth date, the names of the
adoptive parents, and the name the child has taken. Unless the child
has been adopted by a stepparent, the certificate shall not state the
name of the child's birth parents.