In re the Marriage of Branscomb

Wife appeals from a judgment dissolving the parties’ marriage. She assigns error to the trial court’s distribution of marital property and debts as well as its award of spousal support. On de novo review, ORS 19.415(3), conditioned by the guideline that we will not modify a trial court’s division of property unless we decide that “a different division is significantly preferable,” Shlitter and Shlitter, 188 Or App 277, 283, 71 P3d 154 (2003), we conclude that, in all of those respects, the trial court erred to wife’s disadvantage. We therefore modify the judgment accordingly.

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