typically the answer is not really

however as I mentioned previously in

Oregon there’s a statute 107 ORS

10742 5 which allows the court to

appoint a child’s attorney for a child

um the court can do that on its own

motion or the court can assign an

attorney to a child if both parents

agree that that needs to happen or if

the child writes a letter directly to a

judge and says I’d like an attorney to

represent me then a child can um in some

respect have some input as to the

custodial and parenting time decisions

but otherwise the court likes to leave

minor children out that’s kind of the

default is to leave minor children out

of that decision making process but you

know the older the children are you know

if you have a teenager that asks for an

attorney the courts tend to listen to

that child’s opinion and give it more

weight than they would you know if you

have like a five-year-old child for

example