Oregon State public records?

Question

Can a fee be paid for a divorce decree to not be listed as public record?

Answer 1

No.

If your intention is to keep the listing out of the newspaper and the county court house public computers (the only place you would find this information in Coos county, Oregon for example, you may want to look at where you file the divorce. I believe you have to be in the same state to file, but check on the paperwork (it's standard throughout the state) and see if there is a requirement to file in the county you live in. Don't forget to consider that if the divorce is contested, you will probably have to go to court in that other county as well.

There is also the Oregon Vital Records department in Salem I believe, that would have the master record of all statewide marriages and divorces, but their current records are not online so are not generally available to the public. Some of their historical records are now posted, but not even all of those are - the ones after 1909 and up to about 1940.

Answer 2

In Oregon, a divorce decree that is younger than 50 years old is not public record - divorce certificates older than 50 years old and filed after 1945 are all considered public records.
You must be either the person going through the divorce, a close relative or government official in order to gain access to that record and there is a fee associated with that process. If you are concerned about whether your record is out there for all to see, check out www.dirtsearch.org and type in your information, it will list all the public records that are accessible to all.

Answer 3

i dont think so