In re the Marriage of Southard

Mother appeals a supplemental judgment that essentially continued an earlier custody award to Southard of three children, H, S, and AR. With the supplemental judgment, the trial court denied mother’s motion to modify custody and granted Southard’s motion for custody of AR as a “psychological parent” pursuant to ORS 109.119.1 We write to address mother’s assignment of error regarding the court’s recognition of Southard as a person with a parent-child relationship with AR, its finding that Southard had rebutted the presumption that mother acts in the best interest of the child, and its…