Adopted children

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A certified decree of every adoption for every child born in the Virgin Islands shall be forwarded by the clerk of the court to the Registrar of Vital Statistics in the judicial division in which the adoption takes place. Upon receipt of the certified copy of the decree of adoption the local registrar shall prepare a new certificate of birth of the child showing the adoptive name and the names of the adoptive parents. This shall be filed with the original record. A copy of the new certificate shall be sent to the office of the Commissioner where it shall be filed with the copy of the birth certificate originally submitted to that office. On the back of the new certificate shall be entered the date of filing of the certificate of adoption.


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