DeCair v. DeCair

Wife appeals from a judgment for husband for $14,812, which represents the amount owed on an expired judgment in favor of husband. She assigns error to the trial court’s determination that, before the judgment expired, an oral agreement was made between husband and wife to pay the total amount of the judgment and that husband’s part performance of that agreement avoids the effect of the statute of frauds, making the agreement enforceable. ORS 41.580. We affirm.

This case arises out of a dissolution judgment that was entered on June 18, 1982. That judgment awarded wife the family home, subject…