In any proceeding brought under ORS 107.095, 108.110 and 108.120, and in any contempt proceeding to enforce an order or judgment entered in a marital annulment, dissolution or separation proceeding, the court may render an order or judgment awarding to a party, or directly to the party’s attorney, a sum of money determined to be reasonable as an attorney fee at trial and on appeal therein. When a district attorney initiates or prosecutes a proceeding pursuant to ORS 33.015 to 33.155 for enforcement of a restraining order issued under ORS 107.716, 107.718, 124.015 or 124.020 or for enforcement of a support order, the court may enter an order or judgment for a reasonable attorney fee to be paid by the respondent to the county in which the district attorney holds office. An order or judgment so entered is enforceable by the party or attorney in whose favor the order or judgment is given against property of the other party or against any property held jointly or in common between the parties.
ORS 107.445
Known as the Family Abuse Prevention Act
The act spans §§ 107–107 (155 sections).
Applied in 23 court decisions — leading case In re the Dissolution of the Marriage of Baratta (1974)
Most recently applied in 247 Or. App. 651 - In Re the Marriage of Berry (January 2012)
1971 c.280 §18; 1981 c.775 §6; 1981 c.781 §2; 1981 c.897 §32; 1983 c.728 §4; 1987 c.331 §2; 1991 c.724 §21; 1995 c.666 §16; 1997 c.18 §1; 2003 c.576 §124; 2025 c.256 §5
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.