In Re the Marriage of Bolte

Wife appeals from a judgment of dissolution. She assigns error to the trial court’s property division and spousal support award. We write only to address wife’s assignment of error relating to spousal support in which she asserts that the trial court erred in awarding her $1,500 per month in indefinite support. On de novo review, ORS 19.415(3) (2007), we conclude that the trial court’s spousal support award was not just and equitable and modify the dissolution judgment accordingly.

We take the following relevant facts from the record. Husband and wife were born in 1957. They were married for…