In re the Marriage of Nickerson

On remand from the Supreme Court, Nickerson and Nickerson, 296 Or 516, 678 P2d 730 (1984), we consider husband’s challenge to the support provisions of the decree and the effect of the reduction in income to wife, because of the lowered interest rate on wife’s judgment.

This is a five-year marriage. Wife received custody of the parties’ one minor child. At the time of trial, wife was employed as an office manager in a doctor’s office, taking home $717 per month. Husband, employed as a journeyman plumber, earned $31,000 before taxes during the eight months he worked in 1981. The trial court…