Collect the exact URLs before you file anything
Search your full name in quotes, then your name together with your ex-spouse's name. Write down every URL that comes back. Don't work from memory. Don't plan to describe the case later, because every form below wants the exact address of the page pasted into it.
Mark the UniCourt and Trellis URLs. Those are the ones you file on today. Anything sitting on a county clerk or state judiciary portal, or on a news site, goes on a separate list, because nothing in the next three sections takes those down and the court file section below is the only route that reaches them.
judyrecords carries divorce dockets, and we couldn't find a removal procedure it publishes. If it's holding one of your results, treat that as a suppression problem, not a removal one, and don't spend a week hunting for a form.
File the UniCourt redaction request
UniCourt's Public Records Redaction Request runs at unicourt.com/case/removeRecord. It's three steps: submit the form, verify your email, then select the party name you want redacted, and since the form asks for the exact UniCourt URL, you should have it open in another tab before you start.
Only a party to the record, a legal guardian or fiduciary, or an attorney representing a party can file. The form asks for your country and state of residence, your relationship to the record, the affected party's full name, address, email and phone, your reason, and any supporting documentation. Attorneys add a bar number and bar state. That's it.
UniCourt states that it doesn't charge for submitting, processing, or appealing a request. It says it typically decides within 30 days and puts that decision in writing, but a decision is not a removal. One request covers one record, so a case sitting on two UniCourt URLs is two separate submissions, filed the same day.
Then Trellis, straight from the docket page
Open the Trellis page carrying your case and click Request Redaction in the bottom right corner. The walkthrough is at support.trellis.law, and the form is short, since it wants your name, your email, confirmation that the record is about you, and your reason.
Trellis never charges for a redaction request and says so on its own page, along with a warning about third parties who do. On an unsealed case you get redacted names, public and logged-out access removed, and a request to search engines not to index the record. Has a court already sealed your case? Then attach the order, which Trellis says it processes immediately.
Trellis publishes no turnaround. It says only that requests are processed in the order they're received, so file it, write down the date you filed, and move on to the next item.
If a site is charging you, file this instead
Stop paying. A site demanding money to take your divorce record down has qualified itself for Google's policy on sites that charge for removal. That policy de-indexes a URL where you're a subject of the content, the site isn't a business review site, and the site requires payment to have the content removed. All three have to be true. A paywalled removal meets the third one by itself.
Send Google the URL, a screenshot, and enough detail to show the site charges for removal. That's the whole submission. Nothing more. It's one of two Google requests you file while the page is still up, the other being the court-order route below.
If a site wants a notarized affidavit, a scan of your license front and back, and re-verification every 90 days, file this instead of finishing their loop. For Google to act on the URL, you don't need their form. You don't need their answer.
The court file: seal the money, not the marriage
Changing what the court itself holds takes a motion to seal or redact, filed in the court that issued your judgment. There's no expungement of a divorce, so don't go looking for one. Ask for the least you can live with. Name the specific financial filing and the addresses inside it.
In Pennsylvania, the financial source documents, the Marital Property Inventory and the Income and Expense Statement are confidential only if they were filed under a Confidential Document Form. If yours went in without one, Section 8.0(F) of the Case Records Public Access Policy lets a party move to have it sealed after the fact. That's one state. The statutes don't generalize, so ask your family attorney what your state's version is.
The motion is itself a public filing, your ex-spouse gets notice, and they can oppose it. You can end up with a denial plus a new searchable document explaining why you wanted it sealed. And we don't practice law, so the motion is your family attorney's job, not ours.
De-index last, and only after the page has changed
Once the aggregator has redacted the page or taken it down, file the exact URL with Google's Refresh Outdated Content tool. It re-crawls the URL against what the live page says now, so an unchanged page gets you a rejection. Don't file before the page changes.
Did a court seal or redact the record, and a site is still showing it? That's a different submission: Google's Legal Help troubleshooter, with the specific URLs and a certified copy of the order. A granted request takes the URL out of Google, but the page itself stays where it is.
Skip Results about you. Google won't remove results carrying your personal contact info from pages owned by educational or government institutions. That's every county clerk and state judiciary portal.
Re-check at 30, 90 and 180 days, and what never comes off
Re-search your name at 30, 90 and 180 days and re-file anything that's back. UniCourt takes one request per record, so every new URL is its own submission. Every form here is free. The cost to you is the time to run those searches and send the forms again, which adds up, but nothing else comes out of your pocket.
Sealing the court file doesn't delete the copies already scraped. Once you have the order, send it to each republisher yourself, one at a time. Redacting an aggregator page seals nothing and expunges nothing in the court's own file.
News coverage doesn't move. Neither does a written appellate opinion, if the case produced one, and if your name is uncommon and the docket sits on a state judiciary portal, suppression rather than removal is the honest outcome.