In re the Marriage of Anderson

pro tempore

The issues in this case are, first, the authority of an Oregon court when another state awards a valid status-only dissolution during the pendency of an Oregon dissolution case and, second, the correctness of the trial court’s property division and awards of child support and attorney fees. Husband asserts that the foreign dissolution deprived the Oregon trial court of subject matter jurisdiction over the issues that the foreign court was also without jurisdiction to decide. If the Oregon court did have jurisdiction, he asserts that the property division was too favorable to wife…