In re Murray

ROBERTS, Justice.

The Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderers appeals from a judgment of the Somerset County Probate Court ordering the Home to disclose information to petitioner Louis Alton Murray. The sole issue raised on appeal is whether the Probate Court could order disclosure of adoption records and information within the possession of a licensed, private, child adoption agency. We reverse the judgment and instruct the Probate Court to dismiss the petition.

Louis Alton Murray was born in Water-ville in 1946, and subsequently adopted by his foster parents. In July of 1982, he filed a…