United Finance Co., Gladstone v. King

The question for decision is whether judgments and tax liens filed in a county where real properly is located are liens against property previously awarded to the debtor’s spouse in a divorce decree elsewhere and not recorded in that county.

In a property settlement incorporated in a decree of dissolution of marriage rendered in Multnomah County on November 13, 1975, and effective January 13, 1976, Mrs. King was awarded the equitable ownership of a residence in Clackamas County, subject to encumbrances not at issue here. This decree was not then filed in Clackamas County.

In October, 1974,…