Rule 8.090.Certificate Regarding Pending Child Support Proceedings And/or Existing Child Support Orders And/or Judgments

Courts need to know whether another court or agency is already handling support between the same parties. Several statutes say so, and this rule turns that duty into a fixed place on the page. It applies to the information about other pending child support orders, judgments, or proceedings required by ORS 107.085(3), 107.135(2)(b), 107.431(2)(b), 108.110(4), 109.100(3), 109.103(3), 109.165(3), and 125.025(4)(b), in any motion or petition filed under ORS 107.085, 107.135, 107.431, 108.110, 109.100, 109.103, 109.165, and 125.025.

In any of those filings, you include a certificate stating whether a pending child support proceeding, or a child support order or judgment, exists between the parties. The rule fixes the location: the certificate goes at the end of the motion or petition, immediately above the declaration line. A court reviewing a stack of filings should be able to find the same disclosure in the same spot every time.

The motion or petition must also give the name of the court or agency handling a pending proceeding, the case number, and the date of any existing order or judgment. You can put those details inside the certificate or elsewhere in the document. If you put them elsewhere, you must specifically identify that information as involving a pending child support proceeding or an existing order or judgment, so the reader is not left to infer it. The certificate and the details must be completed in substantially the form provided at www.courts.oregon.gov/forms.