Porter

The majority would allow the parties to do by agreement what a court could not do on its own. It thereby would permit the parties to defeat what the legislature intended. The 1971 judgment for token support was the result of an attempt by the parties to circumvent the limits on the authority granted trial courts by the legislature.

In Johnson v. Johnson, 245 Or 10, 14, 419 P2d 28 (1966), the court said:

“To adopt the suggestions of counsel for plaintiff by making a minimal or token award of alimony for the sole purpose of reserving to the court the power to modify would result in an indirect,…