Oregon Statutes - Chapter 656 - Workers' Compensation - Section 656.226 - Cohabitants and children entitled to compensation.

In case an unmarried man and an unmarried woman have cohabited in this state as husband and wife for over one year prior to the date of an accidental injury received by one or the other as a subject worker, and children are living as a result of that relation, the surviving cohabitant and the children are entitled to compensation under this chapter the same as if the man and woman had been legally married. [Amended by 1983 c.816 §4]

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