In re the Marriage of Miller

Wife appeals from an order and supplemental judgment modifying husband’s spousal support obligation, see ORS 107.135(3)(a), and a judgment ordering her to pay attorney fees.1 On de novo review, Crook and Crook, 199 Or App 260, 262, 110 P3d 648 (2005), we conclude that husband failed to meet his burden of establishing the requisite “substantial change” of circumstances. ORS 107.135(3)(a). We further conclude that the trial court erred in awarding husband attorney fees. Accordingly, we reverse.

Husband and wife were married from 1987 until 2000. Throughout the marriage, husband worked as a…