Sleight

Mother, the custodial parent, appeals from a modification of a child custody judgment. The order continues custody in mother but prohibits her from moving with the child outside Wallowa County unless she first obtains regular full-time employment with a prison in Baker or Pendleton, Oregon or Walla Walla, Washington. Reviewing de novo, we modify the order to remove those geographic and employment restrictions and otherwise affirm.

Mother and father are the unmarried parents of a son, born in January, 1985. In February, 1988, after the couple separated, the trial court awarded mother custody,…