Oregon Adoption Laws

Adoption Laws in Oregon

Adoption Records Access

• Non-Identifying Information : An adopted adult of age 18 or older may obtain non identifying information. Consent is required for minor adoptee from the adoptive parents to obtain the non identifying information.

• Identifying Information : Identifying information may obtain through an adoption registry.

• Confidential Intermediary : The people who may use the confidential intermediary service are listed below:
  • Adopted adults
  • Adoptive parents of a deceased adopted adult
  • Birth parents or birth siblings

• Adoptive Registry Use:
  • Adopted adults (age must be 18 years or older)
  • Birth parents, birth siblings (age must be 18 or older)
  • Birth grandparents and siblings of deceased birth parents

• Contact :
  Oregon State Office for Services to Children and Families
  Adoption Registry
  500 Summer Street, NE
  2nd Floor
  Salem, OR 97310-1017
  (503) 945-6643.

• Birth Certificate (Original): To obtain the original birth certificate, adopted adults must be of age 21 years or older and birth parents needs to file a contact preference form.

Consents

• Consent to an adoption shall be done by:
  Statute:- §- § 109.312; 109.316
  • Parents
  • A guardian and next of kin
  • An able person appointed by the court as next friend of the child
  • State office
  • An authorized agency

• Age Requirement for consideration of Adoptee Consent :
  Statute: - § 109.328
  A child of fourteen years of age or older must consent to the adoption.

• When Consent is not required :
  Statute: - §- § 109.314; 109.322; 109.324; 109.326
  • If a parent is mentally ill.
  • If a parent has been imprisoned more than three years.
  • If birth mother's husband is not the child's father.

• Parental Consent can be executed :
  No information about this in statutes reviewed.