In re the Marriage of MacIvor

Mother appeals and father cross-appeals from a judgment modifying the visitation and child support provisions of the dissolution judgment. On de novo review, ORS 19.125(3), we reverse on appeal and affirm on cross-appeal.

The parties’ marriage was dissolved in 1988. Under their agreement, father was awarded custody of their three children, then ages 4,8 and 10, and mother was not ordered to pay child support. At the time, she was unemployed and living with her future husband. The parties contemplated that mother would live within 500 miles of father, and that the transportation cost for…