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2026 cost estimates for divorce in Oregon, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a divorce in Oregon costs on average $8,850, typically $4,900-$14,700 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $215 to $430 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 3-6 months to resolve. Common related costs include court filing fee ($100-$400) and service of process ($50-$100).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $1,500 | $3,000 | $5,000 | 1-3 months |
| Moderate | $4,900 | $8,850 | $14,700 | 3-6 months |
| Complex | $14,750 | $21,600 | $34,400 | 6-18 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$215 – $430/ hour
Median: $320/hr
3-6 months
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>Divorce costs form around two variables that compound each other: how much the spouses disagree on, and how many separate issues (property division, child custody, child support, alimony) are in dispute. An uncontested divorce with no minor children and no real estate can resolve with a single court filing fee and a document-preparation charge. Once custody or asset division is contested, cost accumulates from discovery (formal document exchange), mediation sessions billed hourly, and — in the most complex cases — expert witnesses such as forensic accountants (business or investment valuation) and custody evaluators.
Attorney billing in divorce is typically hourly rather than flat-fee, because the number of court appearances and negotiation rounds is not knowable in advance. A retainer is paid upfront and drawn down as the attorney bills time; complex cases often require replenishing the retainer more than once. Court filing fees and mediation fees are set by the state or county and apply regardless of which attorney is hired.
Take a moderate-complexity divorce matter in Oregon. The recorded median total is $8,850, with reported quotes clustering between $4,900 and $14,700. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $700–$2,600, which leaves roughly $6,250–$8,150 of the Oregon median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes. One further recorded fee is not itemised above and is not in that total.
At $8,850, the median divorce cost in Oregon is in line with the $8,798 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Oregon carries 3 rows — simple, $1,500–$5,000 at $160–$320/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $4,900–$14,700 at $215–$430/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $14,750–$34,400 at $295–$535/hr over 6-18 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it above the midpoint, short of the top quarter.
$8,850 is a median, not the middle of the band — $3,950 above the $4,900 floor, $5,850 under the $14,700 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.
At 25th of 51, Oregon sits above the midpoint of the divorce table: $300 more than the $8,550 median state, or 4%, with 24 states recording a higher median.
Texas ($8,900) and Arizona ($8,550) bracket Oregon inside a $350 window — narrow enough that 25th is close to arbitrary.
Georgia, Nevada, Texas record medians within three percent of Oregon's $8,850. A divorce quote anywhere in that group is describing effectively the same market.
The two rankings disagree sharply. Oregon attorneys sit 19th of 51 on hourly rate at $320 an hour, but the state is only 25th on total divorce cost — the recorded matters resolve in fewer billed hours than the rate alone would produce.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Oregon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Utah | $9,500 | +$650 |
| 20 | Maine | $9,400 | +$550 |
| 21 | Minnesota | $9,350 | +$500 |
| 22 | Georgia | $8,950 | +$100 |
| 23 | Nevada | $8,950 | +$100 |
| 24 | Texas | $8,900 | +$50 |
| 25 | Oregon | $8,850 | — |
| 26 | Arizona | $8,550 | −$300 |
| 27 | Pennsylvania | $8,400 | −$450 |
| 28 | Wisconsin | $8,300 | −$550 |
| 29 | Wyoming | $8,250 | −$600 |
| 30 | Missouri | $8,100 | −$750 |
| 31 | Florida | $8,000 | −$850 |
The 25th position is not a stable fact about Oregon: $50 up or $300 down moves Oregon a row, and a ten percent revision in either direction would cross 16 rows, 9 above and 7 below in near-equal numbers.
Climbing five places would mean passing Maine, Minnesota, Georgia, Nevada, Texas and adding $550 to the $8,850 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Missouri: $750.
$4,050 short of Hawaii ($12,900), $2,800 clear of Alabama ($6,050).
The $8,850 median divided by the $320 median rate implies roughly 28 billable hours. The peer median is 30 hours: Oregon reaches its total in 2 fewer implied hours, because the rate rather than the workload carries more of it.
Oregon records a 7.2x gap between its simple and complex divorce medians. Decomposed, that is 4.2x more billed time and 1.67x a higher rate: 13 hours at $240 becomes 54 hours at $400.
From $4,900 to $14,700 the moderate band is $9,800 wide, close to the $9,550 peer median. End to end that is 31 hours at $320.
Per month of elapsed time the two tiers are close: about $1,967 a month across the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate matter, and $1,800 a month across the 6-18 months recorded for a complex one.
By implied hours Oregon falls to 44th of 51 at 28 hours, 19 places below its 25th on cost — the divorce total arriving on less recorded work.
37% up the $4,900–$14,700 band sits the $8,550 table midpoint, buying 27 hours at $320 against the 28 the local divorce median implies — 1 hour apart.
| Measure | Oregon | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $8,850 | 25th |
| Hourly median | $320 | 19th |
| Implied hours | 28 | 44th |
| Simple median | $3,000 | 24th |
| Complex median | $21,600 | 27th |
$320 an hour puts Oregon between Minnesota ($320) and Texas ($315) — not the divorce cost pairing.
Minnesota records the same $320: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$8,850 buys 37 hours at $240, 28 at $320, 22 at $400.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Illinois | $325 |
| 18 | Minnesota | $320 |
| 19 | Oregon | $320 |
| 20 | Texas | $315 |
| 21 | Utah | $315 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 24th at the simple tier, 25th at moderate, 27th at complex of 51 — so Oregon keeps roughly the same relative position whether the divorce is straightforward or contested.
$3,000 is 24th of 51 on a straightforward divorce, under Arizona ($3,100) and over Texas ($3,000), $100 over the $2,900 tier midpoint.
$21,600 is 27th of 51 once contested, between Minnesota ($21,800) and Wisconsin ($21,600), $200 off the $21,800 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $5,000 against a moderate floor of $4,900 — but there is a clear gap of $50 between the moderate ceiling of $14,700 and the complex floor of $14,750. In Oregon the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Oregon | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $3,000 | 24th | $2,900 | 13 |
| moderate | $8,850 | 25th | $8,550 | 28 |
| complex | $21,600 | 27th | $21,800 | 54 |
$3,000 puts Oregon 24th of 51 on straightforward matters, 1 up on its moderate position, and $100 (3%) over the $2,900 tier midpoint.
13 implied hours at $240: 46% of the moderate tier's 28, over 1-3 months.
Arizona ($3,100) and Texas ($3,000) bracket it — a $100 window.
1 states sit within three percent of the $3,000 here, against 3 at the moderate row.
$21,600 drops Oregon to 27th of 51 on contested matters, 2 below its moderate position and $200 (1%) under the $21,800 tier midpoint.
54 implied hours at $400: 193% of the moderate tier's 28, over 6-18 months.
Minnesota ($21,800) and Wisconsin ($21,600) bracket it — a $200 window.
5 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $21,600, denser than the 3 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Vermont | $3,150 |
| 23 | Arizona | $3,100 |
| 24 | Oregon | $3,000 |
| 25 | Texas | $3,000 |
| 26 | Florida | $2,900 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | Arizona | $21,800 |
| 26 | Minnesota | $21,800 |
| 27 | Oregon | $21,600 |
| 28 | Wisconsin | $21,600 |
| 29 | Idaho | $20,900 |
$8,850 ranks a divorce 2nd of 8 in Oregon, under Criminal Defense, over DUI / DWI. At 78% of Criminal Defense ($11,350).
The state does not rank uniformly. Oregon is 12th of 51 for Criminal Defense but 29th for Estate Planning / Probate, a 17-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 25th on divorce says little about what the other lines cost.
Oregon is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 12% above its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 6% below its own midpoint — a 18-point spread between the extremes.
Oregon's practice areas fan out more than most: its largest tracked median is 5.8x its smallest, against 5.1x for the typical state. Prices here are set matter by matter rather than by one statewide level.
2 of 7 matter types rank Oregon in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 5 between; divorce is 25th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 52th percentile of the 51 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,650 | $11,350 | $35,300 | 35 | 12th | +11% | Utah |
| Divorce | $3,000 | $8,850 | $21,600 | 28 | 25th | +4% | Texas |
| DUI / DWI | $3,800 | $7,950 | $17,400 | 27 | 20th | +7% | Michigan |
| Personal Injury | $1,500 | $5,500 | $15,700 | — | — | +6% | — |
| Immigration | $2,100 | $5,300 | $12,550 | 18 | 20th | +12% | Maine |
| Bankruptcy | $1,650 | $3,550 | $5,150 | 13 | 25th | −1% | Michigan |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,150 | $2,450 | $4,450 | 9 | 12th | +10% | Minnesota |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $600 | $1,950 | $6,750 | 7 | 29th | −6% | Indiana |
Simple tier. $3,000 ÷ $240 = about 13 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,500 a month. The $5,850 step to the moderate tier is 15 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $8,850 to $21,600 is a $12,750 step, mostly work: 26 more hours at $320 is $8,320, while moving to $400 across 54 hours adds $4,320. Work carries 66%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Budgeting from Arizona ($8,550) lands $300 under Oregon; from Texas ($8,900), $50 over; from the $8,550 table midpoint, $300 out.
Both ends, in time. $4,900 is 15 hours at $320; $14,700 is 46. Over the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate divorce, that is 3 to 10 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Oregon's own recorded figures, $21,600 buys 7.2 matters at the $3,000 simple median — or, counted in time, 54 implied hours against 13, a factor of 4.2 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Oregoncourt's own schedule; billing models are covered in the legal fees guide.
This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.