Case ID: or-app_42/html/0025-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      LEE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued July 25,
    affirmed as modified September 4, 1979
    In the Matter of the Marriage of LEHR, Appellant, and LEHR, Respondent.
    
    (No. D7801-01117, CA 13539)
    599 P2d 474
    Argued and submitted July 25, 1979.
    C. Rodney Kirkpatrick, Portland, argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief was Kirkpatrick & Howe, Portland.
    John F. Tollefsen, Portland, waived appearance for respondent.
    Before Schwab, Chief Judge, and Lee, Gillette and Campbell, Judges.
    LEE, J.
   LEE, J.

In this dissolution of a ten-year marriage, the sole issue is the division of the marital assets. The evidence showed that the personal property was worth approximately $28,000 and that the family home had a net worth of like amount. Husband received the bulk of the personal property and the home, subject to a lien on the home in favor of the wife in the sum of $12,500 payable not later than August 1, 1981. Both parties were ordered to pay certain debts incurred prior to separation. Husband was ordered to pay $40 per month child support. The wife contends that the property division was inequitable. During opening statements, counsel for both parties had suggested that the property be "divided 50-50” and wife asked for child support under a proposed split custody of the two children.

We do not think that the trial court’s award to the wife was sufficient. McCoy and McCoy, 28 Or App 919, 927-28, 562 P2d 207 (1977). We modify the decree by increasing wife’s judgment lien against the home to $20,000. In all other respects, the trial court decree is affirmed.

Affirmed as modified. Costs to appellant. 
      
       The personal property inter alia included a jet boat, shares in a closely held family corporation and certain retirement funds, as well as an antique car together with equipment for restoring vintage cars.