Matter of Marriage of Pirouzkar

Wife appeals from the dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of her petition for dissolution. The trial court determined that, under ORS 107.075, one of the parties to a dissolution proceeding must be domiciled in this state, and that plaintiff is unable to establish that she is a domiciliary because of her nonimmigrant alien status. We agree that the statute requires that one party be domiciled in this state, but find that wife has shown that she is an Oregon domiciliary for purposes of the jurisdiction of the circuit court in this dissolution proceeding. We reverse.

The parties…