In re the Marriage of Brune

Husband seeks to terminate his $400 per month spousal support obligation. The trial court refused to modify the decree on the ground that husband failed to show a significant change of circumstances. The issue is whether wife’s remarriage and economic arrangements with her present husband constitute a change of circumstances sufficient to justify termination.1 We review de novo. ORS 19.125(3).

The decree of dissolution, entered in November, 1976, ended the parties’ 29 year marriage, when they were both 47 years old. Wife was awarded all of the parties’ real and personal property, with the…