HISKEY v. HAMILTON

FIL 522; CA A66382.

824 P.2d 1170 (1992)

111 Or.App. 39

Corey Dale HISKEY, Respondent, v. Sonia HAMILTON, Respondent, and John Doe and Jane Doe, Husband and Wife, and Lds Social Services, a Utah Nonprofit Corporation, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided January 22, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Franklin Hunsaker, Portland, argued the cause, for appellants. On the brief were William A. Masters and Mitchell, Lang & Smith, Portland, and David M. McConkie, Merrill F. Nelson and Kirton, McConkie & Poelman, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Michael B. Collins and Collins & Collins, Pendleton, waived appearance, for respondent Hiskey.

No appearance, for respondent Hamilton.

John Chally, Portland, filed a brief amicus curiae for Oregon Council of Adoption Agencies.

Before BUTTLER, P.J., and ROSSMAN and DE MUNIZ, JJ.


ROSSMAN, Judge.

This is a paternity case which, as tried, evolved into a dispute between the rights of potential adoptive parents and the rights of an unwed father who objected to mother's plan to relinquish the child for adoption but whose paternity had not been established before the child was placed in the home of the potential adoptive parents.

Mother, then 16, and father, then 18, dated briefly and conceived a child in July, 1989. They are not married...

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