ORS 107.785¹
Privacy of proceedings
  • • confidentiality of communications
  • • records

(1) All mediation proceedings under ORS 107.755 (Court-ordered mediation) to 107.795 (Availability of other remedies) shall be held in private, and all persons other than mediation services personnel, the parties, their counsel and children of the parties shall be excluded.

(2) All communications, verbal or written, made in mediation proceedings shall be confidential. A party or any other individual engaged in mediation proceedings shall not be examined in any civil or criminal action as to such communications and such communications shall not be used in any civil or criminal action without the consent of the parties to the mediation. Exceptions to testimonial privilege otherwise applicable under ORS 40.225 (Rule 503. Lawyer-client privilege) to 40.295 (Rule 514. Effect on existing privileges) do not apply to communications made confidential under this subsection.

(3) All records of the court with respect to mediation proceedings shall be closed except for:

(a) Records reflecting which cases have been referred for mediation under ORS 107.765 (When referral to mediation permitted) (1);

(b) The mediator’s report to the court made under the provisions of ORS 107.765 (When referral to mediation permitted) (2); and

(c) Information used to compile statistical data. [1983 c.671 §5; 1995 c.273 §19]

§§ 107.755 (Court-ordered mediation) to 107.785 (Privacy of proceedings)

Law Review Cita­tions

27 WLR 551 (1991)

Chapter 107

Notes of Decisions

Trial court has authority to es­tab­lish liquidated sum as amount owed by spouse under settle­ment agree­ment. Horner and Horner, 119 Or App 112, 849 P2d 560 (1993)

Atty. Gen. Opinions

Emergency or necessity as the only grounds for waiver of 90-day period, (1971) Vol 35, p 982

Law Review Cita­tions

55 OLR 267-277 (1976); 27 WLR 51 (1991)

1 Legislative Counsel Committee, CHAPTER 107—Marital Dissolution, Annulment and Separation; Mediation and Conciliation Services; Family Abuse Prevention, https://­www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/­bills_laws/­ors/­ors107.­html (2019) (last ac­cessed May 16, 2020).
 
2 Legislative Counsel Committee, Annotations to the Oregon Revised Stat­utes, Cumulative Supplement - 2019, Chapter 107, https://­www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/­bills_laws/­ors/­ano107.­html (2019) (last ac­cessed May 16, 2020).
 
3 OregonLaws.org assembles these lists by analyzing references between Sections. Each listed item refers back to the current Section in its own text. The result reveals relationships in the code that may not have otherwise been apparent. Currency Information