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If you want to establish parentage, but there is no Voluntary Acknowledgement of Parentage (VAP), you must file a petition in court. You must also serve the other parent with a petition and summons.

DNA testing can identify the child's father with an accuracy rate of 99%. There are two main scenarios where DNA testing may be required: Government officials use DNA testing to determine parentage when public funds are involved in child support payments, enabling them to seek reimbursement when there is a match.

If an unmarried father agrees to paternity both parents can sign a ?Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity? at the hospital or birthing center when the child is born, or both can sign a notarized ?Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity? after the child is born. The father's name is then added to the birth certificate.

Both parents may sign a Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity form at the hospital or birthing center when the child is born. Oregon hospital staff will make the form available and will witness the parents' signatures. No fee will be charged and the father's name will be added to the birth certificate at the hospital.

Oregon law permits the establishment of paternity by Voluntary Acknowledgment and, if desired, a change in the last name of the child, if there is no father listed on an existing Oregon birth record and as long as the conditions outlined in the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (on the back of this form) are met ...

Most paternity test labs report that about 1/3 of their paternity tests have a 'negative' result. Of all the possible fathers who take a paternity test, about 32% are not the biological father. But remember, this is 1/3 of men who have a reason to take a paternity test - not 1/3 of all men. That is a huge difference!