MATTER OF SCHNITZER

A167020.

493 P.3d 1071 (2021)

312 Or. App. 71

In the MATTER OF the Parentage of Samuel Director SCHNITZER, a Minor Child. Cory Noel Sause, Petitioner-Respondent, and Jordan Director Schnitzer, Respondent-Appellant. In the Matter of the Parentage of Samuel Director Schnitzer, a Minor Child. Jordan Director Schnitzer, Petitioner-Appellant, and Cassandra Lynn Gibeaut and Charles Burett Gibeaut, Petitioners below, and Cory Noel Sause, Respondent-Respondent, and Dale C. Sause and Heidi N. Sause, Respondents below.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

June 3, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James N. Westwood , Portland, argued the cause for appellant. Also on the briefs were Stoel Rives LLP, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Stahancyk Kent & Hook PC, and Laurel Parrish Hook .

Jay W. Beattie , Portland, argued the cause for respondent. Also on the brief were Lindsay Hart LLP, Thomas E. McDermott , Erin Gould , and Charles D. Gazzola .

Robin E. Pope filed the brief amicus curiae for Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.

Before DeHoog, Presiding Judge, and Mooney, Judge, and Kamins, Judge.


This appeal involves a dispute over the legal rights, status, and relationship of respondent Sause to a male child, S, who, after being conceived by in vitro fertilization using appellant Schnitzer's sperm and an unfertilized egg that Sause had provided, was then carried and birthed by a gestational carrier (also known as a surrogate...

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