In re the Marriage of Snow

RIGGS, P. J. pro tempore.

Father appeals from the circuit court’s dismissal of his motion to modify a judgment of unlimited separation granting mother custody of the parties’ minor children. We agree with the trial court that it lacked jurisdiction of the matter because a dissolution proceeding is pending in another state, and we affirm the trial court’s ruling.

In June 1994, mother left Oregon and went to Montana for a scheduled visit with her parents, taking with her the parties’ two children. She did not return to Oregon. Mother filed a petition for separation from father in Marion County…