Owens-Koenig v. Koenig

Wife appeals from a judgment dissolving the parties’ ten-year marriage. She assigns error to the trial court’s treatment of three separately held individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and of husband’s three pensions. On de novo review, ORS 19.415,1 we modify the trial court’s judgment.

The parties were married in 1991. At that time, husband was a union contract negotiator and wife was a homemaker. Her two children from a former marriage were living with the parties. Shortly after the parties married, wife obtained employment in telephone sales. After slightly more than a year at that job, she…