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It is necessary to Apply for Search
Access before you can Request a Search.
Welcome to the Putative Father Registry
If you are a father
wishing to register with the Putative Father
Registry please click here.
If you are a person
wishing to search the Putative Father Registry
please click here.
For more info on
fathers' rights please click here.
Si necessita ayuda de traducir, porfavor llame a Putative
Father Registry para assistencia en Espanol 1-866-737-3237
A Putative Father is defined as a man who may be the child’s biological
father, but who is not married to the child’s mother on or before the date of
the child’s birth and has not established his paternity through legal
proceedings.
As a service of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the
Putative Father Registry was created in 1994 and was designed to improve the
process of notifying a biological father that his child may be the subject of
and adoption proceeding. This was to protect the father’s rights and to protect
those interested in adopting the child. The Putative Father Registry has five
basic functions:
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Facilitating the efforts of putative fathers to register with the Putative
Father Registry |
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Maintaining confidentialy, the information provided by putative fathers |
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Facilitating the efforts of interested parties to search the Registry for
putative fathers |
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Conducting searches of the Registry for interested parties to determine if a
father is registered |
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Providing search results to interested parties |
An interested party is defined as
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A child’s mother or father |
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A child welfare agency to whom the mother has expressed an interest in making
the adoption plan |
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The potential adoptive parents |
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The attorney for any one of the above parties |
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