In re the Marriage of Becker

Wife appeals and husband cross-appeals the property division provisions of a dissolution judgment. We review de novo. ORS 19.125.

The marriage lasted 27 years. The parties separated in January, 1989. Husband is 53, and wife is 52. Husband, who retired just before trial, receives a pension of approximately $50,000 per year gross. Throughout most of the marriage, wife was a homemaker.

Wife has interests in seven trusts, all of them created before the marriage. Wife’s interest in the corpus of the “William W. Chapin Trust #1” vested in August, 1988. She segregated proceeds from the trust when they…