In re the Marriage of Colson

Mother appeals from a judgment modifying a dissolution judgment by changing custody of the parties’ children from mother to father. Mother assigns error to the trial court’s determinations that a substantial change of circumstances had occurred since the dissolution trial and that a change of custody would serve the children’s best interests. On de novo review, ORS 19.415(3), we reverse.

The parties’ dissolution action was tried in December 2000. At that time, mother and father were in their early forties and their children, a daughter and son, were 13 and 10, respectively. The parties’…