The Answer Is, It Depends
Video Transcribed: Hi, I’m a Fathers’ rights lawyer in Tulsa, and I’m here answering questions about fatherhood and father’s rights in Tulsa. Now we get a lot of questions, one of them being, if I am an established father do I have a father’s rights? And the answer is, it depends. If you’re established as a father on an acknowledgment of paternity, you do not have a father’s rights.
If you’re established as the father on a birth certificate, you do not have the father’s rights. If you’ve established a father at a DHS administrative proceeding and child support is ordered, you do not have a father’s rights.
The only way that you can get a father’s rights in the state of Oklahoma is to go to the district court where that child resides and ask for it. And you will be given rights to that child because it is the court’s duty to do so. So if you’re worried that you don’t have father’s rights, give us a call.
