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Originally Posted By Karen

There isn't much you can do to "undo" an adoption. You CAN see if you can get a copy of your original birth certificate, if you really need paper with your birth father's name on it.

OR - you can legally change your last name to your birth father's last name.

OR - you can ask your adoptive (step) father to sign a paper terminating his parental rights and have your birth father adopt you. That's IF your state allows adult-adult adoption.

The second option is by far the least expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming & the most feasible.

It depends on what you NEED emotionally. You could sit down with your birth father and just make up a "birth certificate" (unofficial) to affirm the relationship you've re-established. The government is the only entity that really cares about who's listed as your father on your B.C. - and, as an adult, it doesn't really matter to them. (except in certain circumstances, which I'm pretty confident don't apply here.)

Don't know if that helps, but that's pretty much the way it is.