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Simpson and Simpson

Oregon Court of Appeals
Feb 14, 1996
910 P.2d 1180 (Or. Ct. App. 1996)

Opinion

84-6-123; CA A87465

Argued and submitted January 24, 1996.

Reversed February 14, 1996.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Clackamas County, Raymond R. Bagley, Jr., Judge.

Michael J. Clancy argued the cause and filed the brief for appellant.

J. Gary McClain argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Mundorff, McClain Korvac.

Before Warren, Presiding Judge, and Edmonds and Armstrong, Judges.


PER CURIAM

Reversed.


Husband appeals from a judgment in a contempt proceeding. We reverse.

Husband and wife were divorced under a judgment that was entered on November 20, 1984. The judgment awarded wife an equitable lien in the amount of $5,000 "due and payable on or before November 19, 1994." Wife never renewed the judgment and it expired, pursuant to ORS 18.360(1), on November 20, 1994. Wife initiated a contempt proceeding to enforce the lien in December 1994. The trial court held that the lien was enforceable. We disagree. Because payment of the lien was due before the expiration of the judgment, the "savings clause" in ORS 18.360(2) does not apply, and the lien expired with the judgment on November 20, 1994.

ORS 18.360(1) provides, in part, that "[w]henever after the entry of a judgment, a period of 10 years elapses, the judgment and any docketed or recorded lien thereof shall expire."

ORS 18.360(2) provides that, when a dissolution judgment requires the payment of money on a date ten or more years from the date of the judgment, the part of the judgment that requires that payment does not expire until ten years after the date on which the payment becomes due, even though the balance of the judgment would expire in ten years if not renewed.

Reversed.


Summaries of

Simpson and Simpson

Oregon Court of Appeals
Feb 14, 1996
910 P.2d 1180 (Or. Ct. App. 1996)
Case details for

Simpson and Simpson

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Marriage of Rhonda E. SIMPSON, nka Rhonda E. Johnson…

Court:Oregon Court of Appeals

Date published: Feb 14, 1996

Citations

910 P.2d 1180 (Or. Ct. App. 1996)
910 P.2d 1180

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