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ORS 107.005

Known as the Family Abuse Prevention Act

The act spans §§ 107–107 (155 sections).

Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case In Re the Marriage of Crocker (2001)

Most recently applied in In Re the Marriage of Crocker (April 2001)

1971 c.280 §7; 2003 c.576 §102; 2015 c.629 §11

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(1) A marriage may be declared void from the beginning for any of the causes specified in ORS 106.020; and, whether so declared or not, shall be deemed and held to be void in any action, suit or proceeding in which the marriage may come into question.

(2) When either spouse claims or pretends that the marriage is void or voidable under the provisions of ORS 106.020, the marriage may at the suit of the other be declared valid or that the marriage was void from the beginning or that the marriage is void from the time of the judgment.

(3) A marriage once declared valid by the judgment of a court having jurisdiction thereof, in a suit for that purpose, cannot afterward be questioned for the same cause directly or otherwise.

Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.