2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 10. Children
§10-7700-201. Establishment of parent-child relationship.

10 OK Stat § 10-7700-201 (2014) What's This?

A. The mother-child relationship is established between a woman and a child by:

1. The woman’s having given birth to the child;

2. Adoption of the child by the woman; or

3. As otherwise provided by law.

B. The father-child relationship is established between a man and a child by:

1. An unrebutted presumption of the man’s paternity of the child under Section 8 of the Uniform Parentage Act;

2. An effective acknowledgment of paternity by the man under Article 3 of the Uniform Parentage Act, unless the acknowledgment has been timely rescinded or successfully challenged;

3. An adjudication of the man’s paternity;

4. Adoption of the child by the man; or

5. As otherwise provided by law.

Added by Laws 2006, c. 116, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.

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