State v. Nguyen

Father appeals a judgment requiring him to pay child support, contending that the trial court erred in five ways in determining the appropriate amount of support. We agree that the trial court erred in determining father’s income and in ordering a rebuttal based on father’s access to funds of his ex-wife, and we therefore reverse and remand.

Father and mother have one child, who was born in February 2011. Father lives in Georgia, and mother and the child live in Oregon. In August 2011, the Oregon Department of Justice, Division of Child Support (DCS), initiated a filiation proceeding in which…