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Or. Rev. Stat. § 109.060 (2026)

Legal status and legal relationships when parents not married

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      109.060 Legal status and legal relationships when parents not married. The legal status and legal relationships and the rights and obligations between a person and the descendants of the person, and between a person and parents of the person, their descendants and kindred, are the same for all persons, whether or not the parents have been married. [1957 c.411 §1]

 

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 16 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1960–2023 · leading case: Sola v. Clostermann, 679 P.2d 317 (Or. Ct. App. 1984).
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Sola v. Clostermann, 679 P.2d 317 (Or. Ct. App. 1984). · cites it 4× “By 1976, statutes were in effect which protected children born out of wedlock: ORS 109.060; 109.090; 112.105 and 112.195.”
Thom v. Bailey, 481 P.2d 355 (Or. 1971). · cites it 4× “” ⑭ Section 1 of the act (now ORS 109.060) provides: “The legal status and legal relationships and the rights and obligations between a person and Ms descendants, and between a person and his parents, their descendants and kindred, are the same for all persons, whether or not…”
State Ex Rel. Adult & Fam. Servs. Div. v. Bradley, 666 P.2d 249 (Or. 1983). · cites it 2× “ORS 109.060. 6 This includes the right to support from both parents throughout minority.”
Geiger v. Kitzhaber, 994 F. Supp. 2d 1128 (D. Or. 2014). “§ 109.060 (relationship between child and parents is the same regardless of parents’ marital status).”
Clarkston v. Bridge, 539 P.2d 1094 (Or. 1975). · cites it 2× “The obligor is presumed to have been present in the responding state during the period for which support is sought until otherwise shown.”
P & P v. Child.'s Servs. Div., 673 P.2d 864 (Or. Ct. App. 1983). “, ORS 109.060; 109.094; 109.312. If a putative father has not come forward to initiate a parent-child relationship, his liberty interest is insufficient to justify the procedures necessary to apprise him of the adoption proceeding.”
State v. Edmiston, 602 P.2d 282 (Or. Ct. App. 1979). “The right to custody is not affected by the fact that the mother and father never married, ORS 109.060, but the father in Keaton had not established paternity and had therefore not acquired the rights of a parent.”
State Ex Rel. Adult & Fam. Servs. Div. v. Bradley, 650 P.2d 91 (Or. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 2× “ORS 109.060. Under ORS 111.095(2), heirship is determined by declaratory judgment proceedings brought under ORS 28.”
Mullart v. State Land Bd., 353 P.2d 531 (Or. 1960). “This was repealed by Oregon Laws 1957, ch 411, codified as ORS 109.060 et seq, and rights of inheritance conferred as therein provided.”
Walker v. Sherriff, 468 P.2d 655 (Or. Ct. App. 1970). · cites it 2× “Oregon Laws 1957, ch 411, § 1, codified as ORS 109.060, reads: “The legal status and legal relationships and the rights and obligations between a person and his descendants, and between a person and his parents, their descendants and kindred, are the same for all persons,…”
Montgomery v. Ledesma, 507 P.2d 405 (Or. Ct. App. 1973). · cites it 2× “060 which reads: “The legal status and legal relationships and the rights and obligations between a person and his descendants, and between a person and his parents, their descendants and kindred, are the same for all persons, whether or not the parents have been married.”
Cross, 26 I. & N. Dec. 485 (2015). “§ 9:17-40 (West 2014); Or. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 109.060 (West 2014); 23 Pa.”
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