After Ten or More Years of Marriage. Abstract approved:,Redacted for Privacy

The financial aspects of divorce are of great im-portance to the growing numbers of men, women, and chil-dren who live with the consequences of economic deci-sions made at dissolution. The purpose of this study was to provide data on the economic aspects of divorce in Oregon after ten or more yearsof marriage; to de-termine what assets were owned, how those assets were valued for the purpose of division, which assets were allocated to wives and which were allocated to husbands, the factors that affected the allocation, and the effect of asset division on the post-divorce economic well-being of wives and husbands. The sample was drawn from final divorce decrees for marriages lasting ten or more years filed betwee