ORS 109.092 Obligation to recognize responsibility for conception; surrender of child for adoption

When it is determined that a person is pregnant with a child, the person and any individual to whom the pregnant person is not married and with whom the pregnant person engaged in sexual intercourse at approximately the time of conception have an obligation to recognize that the individual may be the other person responsible for the conception.

During the months of pregnancy, the individual may join the pregnant person in acknowledging parentage and assuming the rights and duties of expectant parenthood.

If the individual acknowledges parentage of the expected child and the pregnant person denies that the individual is the genetic parent of the child or refuses to join the individual in acknowledging parentage, the individual may seek relief under ORS 109.125.

If the pregnant person wants the individual to acknowledge the individual’s parentage of the expected child and the individual denies parentage or refuses to acknowledge parentage, the pregnant person may seek relief under ORS 109.125.

If after the birth of the child the parent who gave birth to the child decides to surrender the child for adoption and parentage has not been acknowledged as provided in ORS 109.065 (5) or the alleged genetic parent has not asserted parental rights in proceedings to adjudicate parentage of the child, the parent who gave birth to the child has the right without the consent of the alleged genetic parent to surrender the child as provided in ORS 418.270 or to consent to the child’s adoption.

Subsection (3) of this section does not apply if the child is an Indian child, as defined in ORS 419B.603.