Pennsylvania Court Records

Pennsylvania divorces are Court of Common Pleas cases kept by the county Prothonotary. Under the Case Records Public Access Policy of the Unified Judicial System, 204 Pa. Code 213.81, effective January 1, 2022, all case records are open to the public except what the Policy and other law restrict, and the documents Section 8.0(A) makes confidential include financial source documents such as tax returns, pay stubs and bank and credit card statements, the Marital Property Inventory and Pre-Trial Statement under Pa.R.C.P. 1920.33, the Income and Expense Statement under Pa.R.C.P. 1910.27(c), and agreements between the parties under 23 Pa.C.S. 3105. The docket, complaint, decree in divorce, court-entered equitable distribution orders and opinions are public.

The UJS Web Portal gives docket sheets, not images, and covers Common Pleas criminal cases only, so a divorce docket comes from the county Prothonotary. A member of the public makes an oral request to the Prothonotary under Section 4.0 of the Policy, unless a local rule provides otherwise, and pays no more than 25 cents per page for photocopies or prints under Section 6.0, unless other applicable authority provides otherwise. The Pennsylvania asset search page explains what the decree and orders still show.