NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF PUTATIVE FATHER REGISTRIES

from Erik L. Smith

By State

Ohio*

Obtain Registration Form (OHDS 1694) from, and return it by personal delivery or mail to: Ohio Putative Father Registry; 255 East Main St., 3rd Floor; Columbus, OH 43215-5222.

Tel: 1-888-313-3100 or (614) 466-9274. Fax: (614) 728-2604.
Notarization required. Cost: None.

Ignorance of the pregnancy is no excuse for not signing the registry. The sexual act itself lets the adoption proceed without the putative father’s consent if he has not signed the registry within 30 days after the child’s birth or legally established fatherhood. O.R.C 3107.061, & 3107(B).

Oklahoma
Statutes: §10-7506-1.1. (Centralized Paternity Registry)

Contact: Paternity Registry of the Department of Human Services (405) 522-5871.

Obtain form from website: www.oscn.net/Forms/DHS_Forms/MicrosoftWord/dhsform.doc

Return form to: Oklahoma Department of Human Services - Adoptions, P.O. Box 25352, Oklahoma City, OK 73125

Oregon

Statutes: 109.094, 109.225. The putative father must first file with the court a petition to establish paternity, which requires information about the mother. Then the putative father files form 45-115 with the department of Vital Records. Get the form from and return the form to:

Vital records, P.O. Box 14050, Portland, OR 97923-0050 Tel: 503-731-4492.

(This address differs from the return address listed on the form itself. Either address will work, but the above address is specific to the vital records registry itself)

Contact: Center for Health Statistics of the Health Division of the Department of Human Resources 503-945-5944. Salem, OR.

Tennessee

Obtain form from, and return form to: Registrar, Putative Father Registry, Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, Cordell Hull Building-8th Floor, 436 Sixth Avenue, North, Nashville, TN 37243-1290. Tel: 615-741-9699 alt tel: 615-532-5637.

See also form online at www.state.tn.us/youth/adoption/NOTICE04.pdf

Texas* (Specific information still pending)
“Paternity Registry” Statutes: Tex. Fam. Code Ann. sec. 160.251 et seq.

Forms are available from hospitals, birthing centers, licensed child-placing agencies, county and district clerks, and the Bureau of Vital Statistics. (See following address)

Return the form to: Bureau of Vital Statistics; Texas Department of Health; 1100 West 49th, Austin, TX, 78756. Tel: 1-888-963-7111 Ext 7782 or 512-458-7782.

Notarization required. Cost: None

Utah*
Statutes: Utah Code Ann. 78-30-4.14(2)(b)(ii-iii)

Obtain form from, and return form to: State of Utah, Department of Health, Office of Public Health Data, Bureau of Vital Records, 288 North 1460 West, P.O. Box 141012, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-1012. Tel: 1-801-538-6380.

Notarization required.

Note: The form is actually a “notice of commencement of paternity proceeding.” But the statute functions like a putative father registry statute.

Wyoming

“Father Registry” Statutes: 1-22-117. Obtain form from, and return form to:

Department of Family Services, Adoption Services, Hathaway Bldg. 3rd Floor, 2300 Capitol Ave., Cheyenne, WY 82002. Tel: 307-777-3570 Alt Tel: (307) 347-6181.

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_{Erik Smith can be reached at: edenstore@msn.com.}