State ex rel. Pedroza v. Pedroza

This is a proceeding to modify child support and to establish the amount of past due support owed by father. The state appeals a judgment in which the trial court reduced father’s accrued child support arrearage to $0 and ordered child support that is less than the child support guidelines’ presumptive amount.

In 1977, father and mother married in Washington. They had three children who, at the time of the hearing, were ages 14,12 and 10. The parties separated in 1983 and divorced in Washington in 1987. Father moved to Oregon and remarried; he and his present wife have a seven-year-old child.

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