Protrka v. Palmer

This is a suit by a former wife to quiet title to a dwelling house once held by herself and her husband as tenants by the entirety. The defendant husband appeals from a decree quieting title in the wife.

The principal question is whether a court of equity, in a suit to quiet title under ORS 105.605, can make the same kind of equitable distribution of real property between persons divorced in another jurisdiction that an Oregon court hearing divorce and separation matters could have made under ORS 107.100① or 107.280.②

During their marriage, the parties had purchased Oregon real property as…