In re the Marriage of Hadden

Husband appeals from the property division provisions of a dissolution judgment allowing the parties to keep the growth in their own retirement accounts. Wife cross-appeals, assigning error to the trial court’s decision to distribute the remaining property equally. On de novo review, ORS 19.125(3), we affirm on the appeal and on the cross-appeal.

The parties had been married for two and one-half years at the time of the dissolution, and they had lived together for two years before their marriage. During that four and one-half year period, they made a number of large joint purchases, including…