§ 5.1 Introduction

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§ 5.1 INTRODUCTION

§ 5.1-1 Scope of Chapter

This chapter is organized by first examining the law of family (§ 5.2-1 to § 5.2-7(b)), then moving to the law of marriage and its dissolution (§ 5.3-1 to § 5.4-1(f)). The rights and responsibilities pertaining to marriage and children is almost, but not entirely, a matter of state law. Thus, most of the material in Family Law (OSB Legal Pubs 2013), Juvenile Law: Dependency (OSB Legal Pubs 2017), Juvenile Law: Delinquency (OSB Legal Pubs 2019), and Administering Oregon Estates (OSB Legal Pubs 2012 & Supp 2018) will apply to foreign nationals without change. This chapter seeks to pull together law bearing uniquely or directly on foreign nationals and family law, and focuses on material either not covered in those books, or material in need of expansion or...