In re the Marriage of Burback

Mother appeals from a trial court judgment dismissing her motion to modify the child support provision of the parties’ California dissolution decree. The court concluded that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction. We disagree and reverse.

The parties grew up and met each other in Oregon. In 1976, they were married. Their first child was born in 1978. In 1979, they were divorced. In 1980, they remarried. A second child was born in 1981. Later that year, the family moved to California, where they lived until 1982, when they again separated. Mother and the children returned to Oregon. Father…