Marital Settlement Agreement (No Children) - Oregon

OREGON MARITAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT — NO CHILDREN UNDER 21

This Agreement is made on [__/__/____] between:

Party A: [________________________________]

Party B: [________________________________]

The labels used in the dissolution case are:

☐ Party A is Petitioner and Party B is Respondent.

☐ The parties are Co-Petitioners, listed in this order on every court form: [________________________________].

Use Screen

Do not use this no-children agreement if the parties have a child together who is under age 21 without first obtaining legal review. Current OJD instructions treat a child who is 18, 19, or 20 as a necessary party until age 21, even if a later waiver may be available.

Children together under age 21: ☐ none ☐ legal review required

Pregnancy: ☐ neither party is pregnant ☐ legal review required

Current bankruptcy involving either party: ☐ no ☐ legal review required

Retirement or pension division: ☐ no division ☐ plan-specific legal review and order required

Real property: ☐ none ☐ addressed below with title review

1. Marriage and Dissolution Facts

Date of marriage: [__/__/____]

Place of marriage: [________________________________]

Date of separation, if used by the parties for allocation purposes: [__/__/____]

Filing county: [________________________________] County, Oregon

For an ordinary Oregon dissolution based on irreconcilable differences, ORS 107.075 requires at least one party to be a resident of or domiciled in Oregon when the case begins and continuously for the preceding six months. The current OJD no-children instructions state that one spouse must have lived in Oregon for at least six months and the case must be filed in a county where either spouse lives.

Qualifying spouse and facts: [________________________________]

The parties state that irreconcilable differences have caused the irremediable breakdown of the marriage, as provided in ORS 107.025.

2. Disclosure and Independent Review

Each party states that the party has disclosed all known assets, debts, income sources, support obligations, claims, and material title or beneficiary interests. The parties acknowledge that ORS 107.105(1)(f) requires full disclosure of assets for a just property division and that statutory disclosure, discovery, subpoena, appraisal, and tracing issues may require additional work.

Disclosure exchanged:

☐ real-property deeds, liens, mortgages, valuations, and legal descriptions;

☐ bank and investment statements;

☐ retirement, pension, deferred-compensation, and stock-benefit statements;

☐ business-interest records;

☐ vehicle and titled-property records;

☐ debt statements and credit reports;

☐ tax returns and current income records;

☐ insurance policies and beneficiary information; and

☐ other: [________________________________].

Party A's independent attorney: [________________________________]

Party B's independent attorney: [________________________________]

☐ Each party had an opportunity to obtain independent legal, tax, and financial advice.

3. Property-Division Framework

ORS 107.105(1)(f) directs the court to divide real and personal property as may be just and proper in all the circumstances. It treats retirement interests as property, recognizes homemaker contributions, and creates a rebuttable presumption of equal contribution to property acquired during marriage, subject to the statute's separate treatment of qualifying gifts and other circumstances.

This Agreement states the parties' proposed disposition. Court approval and entry of the judgment are still required.

4. Real Property

Property 1

Street address: [________________________________]

Full legal description attached as Exhibit: [________________________________]

Current titled owner or owners: [________________________________]

Mortgage, lien, line of credit, or other encumbrance: [________________________________]

Agreed disposition:

☐ awarded to Party A;

☐ awarded to Party B;

☐ listed for sale by [__/__/____]; or

☐ other: [________________________________].

Possession until transfer or sale: [________________________________]

Mortgage, taxes, insurance, repairs, and utilities until transfer or sale: [________________________________]

Refinance or assumption deadline, if applicable: [__/__/____]

Sale agent, price process, accepted-offer authority, costs, and net-proceeds division: [________________________________]

Deed and recording responsibility: [________________________________]

An allocation between spouses does not itself release a borrower or guarantor from a lender's contract. A refinance deadline is not a promise that a lender will approve refinancing. Obtain lender, title, bankruptcy, and tax advice before relying on this section.

Additional Real Property

[____________________________________________________________]

5. Personal and Titled Property

Except for the items listed below, the parties agree that each will receive the personal property currently in that party's possession, subject to court approval.

Vehicles

6. Financial Accounts and Cash

Equalizing payment, if any: [Party A / Party B] will pay $[________] to [Party A / Party B] by [__/__/____] under the following terms: [________________________________].

7. Retirement and Employment Benefits

☐ No retirement interest is divided; each party is awarded the interests in that party's own name.

☐ A qualified domestic relations order, domestic relations order, or other plan-specific instrument will be prepared by [________________________________] by [__/__/____].

Do not rely on this Agreement alone to divide a retirement plan. Plan terms and federal or state benefit law may require a separate order, joinder, approval, or survivor-benefit election.

8. Business and Other Complex Interests

Business, professional practice, trust, option, digital asset, intellectual property, pending claim, or other interest: [________________________________]

Valuation and disposition: [________________________________]

9. Debts

Unless otherwise stated, each party will be responsible between the parties for debts incurred individually after [__/__/____] and debts secured by property awarded to that party.

If a creditor requires payment from the party who was not allocated a debt and that party pays it, the responsible party will reimburse the payer within [____] days after written proof of payment, subject to bankruptcy law and the entered judgment.

The parties understand that their allocation does not bind a creditor that is not a party to the case.

10. Spousal Support

ORS 107.105(1)(d) recognizes transitional, compensatory, and maintenance support. Select only provisions supported by the parties' facts and reflected accurately in the proposed judgment.

☐ No spousal support. Each party asks the court to order no spousal support.

☐ Transitional support. [Party A / Party B] will pay [Party A / Party B] $[________] per month beginning [__/__/____] and ending [__/__/____], based on these education or training facts: [________________________________].

☐ Compensatory support. [Party A / Party B] will pay [Party A / Party B] $[________] [per month / total] beginning [__/__/____] and ending or due [__/__/____], based on this significant contribution to education, training, vocational skills, career, or earning capacity: [________________________________].

☐ Maintenance support. [Party A / Party B] will pay [Party A / Party B] $[________] per month beginning [__/__/____] and ending [__/__/____ / on a stated event], based on these factors: [________________________________].

Payment method and due date: [________________________________]

Arrears, interest, security, or withholding terms: [________________________________]

Unless the judgment expressly provides otherwise, ORS 107.105(1)(d) generally terminates liability for future support on the death of either party, except for unpaid previously ordered support. Do not insert remarriage or cohabitation as an automatic ending event unless that result is deliberately negotiated, legally reviewed, and stated in the judgment.

ORS 107.135 provides a substantial-economic-change standard for spousal-support modification and an express special standard for compensatory support. This Agreement does not state that compensatory support is categorically nonmodifiable. Any negotiated limit or waiver of modification must be drafted and reviewed for the actual judgment.

11. Life and Health Insurance

Life Insurance Related to Support

☐ Neither party requests life insurance connected to support.

☐ [Party A / Party B] will maintain coverage of $[________] for the benefit of [Party A / Party B] until [________________________________], subject to insurability, policy ownership, premium, notice, and proof terms stated here: [________________________________].

ORS 107.820 addresses court-ordered life insurance connected to support and requires careful treatment of existing policies, beneficiary rights, premiums, policy copies, and reductions in coverage.

Health Coverage

Coverage after dissolution and responsibility for premiums: [________________________________]

The parties will verify continuation, conversion, employer-plan, marketplace, and tax consequences directly with the plan administrator and qualified advisers.

12. Taxes

Tax year: [____]

☐ The parties will file jointly only if legally eligible and both sign the completed returns after professional review.

☐ The parties will file separately.

Refund or balance-due allocation: [________________________________]

Estimated payments, withholding, carryovers, property basis, sale consequences, and audit cooperation: [________________________________]

Tax professional consulted: [________________________________]

This Agreement makes no representation about the federal or Oregon tax treatment of support, transfers, filing status, retirement division, or debt allocation.

13. Transfers and Implementation

Unless another deadline is stated, each party will sign and deliver documents reasonably necessary to implement the entered judgment within [____] days after entry.

Specific transfer documents and responsible preparer: [________________________________]

Escrow, security, or enforcement term: [________________________________]

14. Settlement and Judgment Terms

ORS 107.104 states Oregon's policy of encouraging settlement and authorizes enforcement of qualifying settlement terms as contract terms, through judgment remedies, or both, subject to law and public policy.

The parties request that the court approve their settlement and incorporate its operative terms into a stipulated general judgment. The parties understand:

☐ the marriage is dissolved only when the court signs the general judgment;

☐ judgment terms become enforceable upon entry in the court register;

☐ the proposed judgment must accurately state all property, debt, money-award, support, insurance, and implementation terms;

☐ omitted property or retirement rights may be difficult or impossible to recover later; and

☐ the agreement cannot bind third parties, plans, lenders, taxing authorities, or creditors merely by naming them.

15. Representations and Voluntary Agreement

Each party states that:

☐ the party read the complete Agreement and attachments;

☐ the party understands the proposed allocation and unresolved risks;

☐ the party had adequate time and access to records;

☐ no material promise outside this written Agreement induced the signature;

☐ the party signs voluntarily and without fraud, coercion, or duress; and

☐ the party understands that court approval is required.

16. Signatures

PARTY A

Signature: [________________________________]

Printed name: [________________________________]

Date: [__/__/____]

PARTY B

Signature: [________________________________]

Printed name: [________________________________]

Date: [__/__/____]

Attorney for Party A, if any: [________________________________]

Attorney for Party B, if any: [________________________________]

Use the current OJD declaration supporting stipulated judgment and stipulated general judgment. This Agreement does not replace those court documents. Confirm whether signatures, acknowledgments, notarization, exhibits, and judgment-submission procedures are required by the chosen court or transaction.

Sources and References

• Oregon Revised Statutes, Chapter 107 (2025 edition)
• Oregon Judicial Department — Co-Petitioners, No Minor Children Packet (official Columbia County packet)
• Oregon Judicial Department — Family Law Forms