In Re the Marriage of Brown

Husband appeals from a dissolution judgment awarding wife spousal support from husband’s interests in two family trusts created by husband’s father and grandmother. On de novo review, ORS 19.415(3), we reverse the award of spousal support, modify the property division by awarding wife, as part of the parties’ property division, one-half of husband’s interest in both trusts, and otherwise affirm.

Husband and wife were married for 24 years. They lived the majority of their married life in Montana, where they raised one daughter and where both practiced law: wife at Montana’s water court, and…