Oak v. Pattle

This is an appeal from a probate court’s order apportioning proceeds of a wrongful death settlement between the decedent’s divorced parents.1 ORS 30.060; ORS 30.040. The dispositive issue is whether the probate court erred in not awarding appellant, decedent’s father, any portion of the proceeds. We review de novo, ORS 19.125; Williams v. Cover, 74 Or App 711, 713, 704 P2d 548 (1985), and affirm.

Decedent’s parents were divorced in 1968, when she was 10 months old. After the divorce mother, who was awarded custody of the children, moved to Oregon with decedent and her brother. Father had…