Grandparents' Rights/Third-Party Rights
Helping Oregon Families Through Their Toughest Times
What Must Third-Party Individuals Requesting Custody or Visitation Prove?
While seeking third-party custody and visitation rights is not impossible, it does prove difficult. Oregon requires that the third-party individual requesting such rights prove the following:
- Legal parent is unfit or unwilling to care for the child
- Child would be psychologically, emotionally, or physically harmed otherwise
- Legal parent at one time fostered, encouraged, and consented to the relationship between the child and the third party
- Legal parent had, in recent times, unreasonably denied or limited contact between the child and the third party