Q: I recently got in contact with my daughter who is 15 and I haven't seen since she was 9mths...i was unable to find them

A: Have you been legally established as the father? Is your name on the birth certificate? Can we assume that your parental rights were not terminated either by an adoption or a court order? Has there ever been any order with respect to custody of your daughter? You probably should talk to an attorney about these questions and get advice as to what you need to do.

As a practical matter, you can contact the mother and just see if she will let you spend time with your daughter. You don't need a court order if there is consent by the mother. On the other hand, if they aren't going to let you see your daughter you may need to get court ordered parenting time and you either need to go back to the last court that made any orders with respect to custody or parenting time between you and your daughter, or, if there has never been such a court order, you can go to the county courthouse in the county where you daughter now lives and file a request to establish parenting time.

Keep in mind that court ordered parenting time may be difficult to enforce if your 15 year old daughter isn't interested in seeing you. I would probably start of with just trying to get in touch with your daughter through the mother and may just doing some short day time visits to see her because she really doesn't know you yet. This may mean traveling to Oregon and making yourself available rather than expecting her to travel to visit a complete stranger in Nevada.