If a respondent fails to answer or fails to appear at trial, the court shall have the power to proceed accordingly. In such case, the court may adjudicate the respondent’s parentage or nonparentage of the child and may impose such obligations on the respondent as it deems reasonable. In all such cases corroborating evidence in addition to the testimony of the parent or expectant parent shall be required to establish parentage and the court may, in its discretion, order such investigation or the production of such evidence as it deems appropriate to establish a proper basis for relief. The testimony of the parent or expectant parent and the corroborating evidence may be presented by affidavit.
ORS 109.145
Known as the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
The act spans §§ 109–109 (302 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 358 Pa. Super. 550 - Clark v. Jeter (1986)
Most recently applied in 160 Or. App. 656 - STATE, DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES v. Trost (May 1999)
1969 c.619 §4; 1975 c.640 §14; 1983 c.762 §4; 2017 c.651 §23; 2025 c.592 §32
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.