Jon and Kate Gosselin may have filed in Montgomery for its closed-divorce rule

Jon and Kate Gosselin may have filed their initial divorce papers in a Pennsylvania county to obtain a blanket on their contents.

The divorcing stars of the reality show about parenting and marriage don’t live in Montgomery County. But the county has an unusual rule that automatically puts divorce papers under seal.

Richard Hodgson, the county’s president judge, said, “I think it was a feeling that those kinds of allegations shouldn’t be available to the public just to trash somebody and put it all over the street.”

The Gosselins’ home, however, is in the state of Pennsylvania. They plan to spend alternating time there with their twins and sextuplets. The show, Jon & Kate Plus 8, was put on hiatus until August by the TLC network, which claimed it wanted to support the family through its transition.

In Los Angeles, celebrity divorces are usually a matter of public record. But couples can opt to have their case heard by a private arbitrator and public courts will enable partial blanketing. The Montgomery County rule is one that dates back to the time before no-fault divorce.