In re the Marriage of Medlyn

The majority correctly acknowledges the legal standard that wife must satisfy to warrant modification of her spousal support award: a substantial and unanticipated change in economic circumstances. ORS 107.135(2)(a); Thomas and Thomas, 160 Or App 365, 371, 981 P2d 382 (1999). The majority’s resolution of this case, however, is not faithful to that standard. The record does not establish that the degeneration of wife’s back condition has changed her economic circumstances in either a substantial or unanticipated way. Accordingly, I dissent.

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