Clumpner and Clumpner ( 2024 )

220 January 10, 2024 No. 29
This is a nonprecedential memorandum opinion
pursuant to ORAP 10.30 and may not be cited
except as provided in ORAP 10.30(1).
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE
STATE OF OREGON
In the Matter of the Marriage of
Kristi CLUMPNER,
Petitioner-Appellant,
and
Darren CLUMPNER,
Respondent-Respondent.
Washington County Circuit Court
19DR23256; A178268
D. Charles Bailey, Jr., Judge.
Submitted October 6, 2023.
Gregg Aaron Myers filed the briefs for appellant.
Darren Clumpner filed the brief pro se.
Before Ortega, Presiding Judge, Powers, Judge, and
Hellman, Judge.
HELLMAN, J.
Affirmed.
Nonprecedential Memo Op: 330 Or App 220 (2024) 221
HELLMAN, J.
Wife appeals from a general judgment of dissolu-
tion. On appeal, she raises two assignments of error, both of
which relate to the amount of spousal support that she was
awarded. For the reasons below, we affirm.
After consideration of ORS 19.415(3)(b) and the fac-
tors in ORAP 5.40(8)(d), we determine that this is not the
kind of “exceptional case” in which we would take de novo
review. ORAP 5.40(8)(c). As a result, we review the trial
court’s determination of the amount of spousal support for
abuse of discretion. Colton and Colton, 297 Or App 532, 542,
443 P3d 1160 (2019). In reviewing that determination, we
are bound by the trial court’s findings of historical fact that
are supported by any evidence in the record, and we will
disturb the trial court’s determination of what constitutes a
“just and equitable” amount and duration of support only if
the court “misapplied the statutory and equitable consider-
ations required by ORS 107.105.” Berg and Berg, 250 Or App
1, 2, 279 P3d 286 (2012).
As to wife’s first assignment of error, we con-
clude that the trial court did not misapply the factors in
ORS 107.105(1)(d)(C). Although wife testified that she cur-
rently earned the state minimum wage, the vocational reha-
bilitation expert’s testimony allowed for a finding that wife
had a present earning capacity of $3,200 to $3,500 per month.
With such nonspeculative evidence, the trial court was not
required to accept wife’s salary at the time of the trial as her
present earning capacity. Cf. Cortese and Cortese, 260 Or App
291, 297, 317 P3d 340 (2013), rev den, 355 Or 317 (2014) (recog-
nizing that when there is nonspeculative evidence of a spouse’s
present earning capacity that is greater than the spouse’s
current income, a trial court can order support based on the
greater amount). As to wife’s second assignment of error,
after a review of the record we conclude that the trial court
did not abuse its discretion in awarding wife $500 a month
in transitional spousal support from February 1, 2022, until
December 31, 2023, and $700 a month in maintenance spou-
sal support from February 1, 2022, until December 31, 2025.
Affirmed.