In re Ranes

Wife appeals from a dissolution judgment. She assigns error to the trial court’s award of spousal support, child support and attorney fees, and to the trial court’s order granting husband the right to claim the parties’ minor children as dependents for income tax purposes. We review de novo. ORS 19.125.

This was a 21-year marriage. Wife had completed one semester of college when she left school to marry husband. She worked for about two years as a bank teller but quit two months before the birth of the parties’ first child. By mutual agreement, she stayed at home to care for the children and,…