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Every person who shall without good cause abandon his wife in destitute or necessitous circumstances and neglect and refuse to maintain or provide for her, or who shall abandon his or her minor child or children under the age of fifteen (15) years and willfully neglect or refuse to maintain or provide for such child or ...

A parent will not be arrested or charged for child neglect or child abandonment. The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) will assume custody after obtaining a court order. A parent(s) can ask for the child's return. The parent(s) would need to contact his or her local DHS office to begin this process.

Oklahoma law contains a rebuttable presumption that any child 12 years of age or older can provide a preference for either parent. However, the court will consider additional evidence in a custody and visitation order. The court will always base its final decision on the child's best interests.

(B) Abandonment. The court may find that the parent who is entitled to custody of the child has abandoned the child. (C) Abandonment of an Infant. The court may find that the child, 12 months of age and younger, was abandoned.

Without marriage to the mother or name on the birth certificate Oklahoma says fathers have no rights until established by a court order. Child support can still be ordered.

§ 1-4-909), a child 14 years of age or older may, by an application signed by the child and the child's attorney, request the court reinstate the child's parent's previously terminated parental rights when the: (1) child was previously found to be a deprived child; (2) parent's rights were terminated in a deprived ...