FAMILY LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2023) Cara Shanahan In Vang v. Pa, 531 P.3d 979 (Alaska 2023), the supreme court held that money transfers are not presumptively treated as gifts between parties who are not legally married and do not establish a domestic partnership at trial. (Id. at 984). Tong Vang and Pa Kou Continue Reading »
FAMILY LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2023) Kubi Johnson In Christy v. Conrad, 524 P.3d 231 (Alaska 2023), the supreme court held parents can cut off contact between their children and the children’s grandparents, despite a positive grandparent-child relationship, if the grandparents are unable to show with clear and convincing evidence that ending visitation is Continue Reading »
FAMILY LAWSupreme Court of Alaska (2022)Kristiana OlsonIn Daum v. Daum, 518 P.3d 718 (Alaska 2022), the supreme court held that the superior court hadjurisdiction and authority to award support for an adult child covering the entirety of the child’sliving expenses. (Id. at 720). After a father filed for divorce following years of separation, themother counterclaimed Continue Reading »
FAMILY LAWSupreme Court of Alaska (2022)Sarah CouillardIn Angelica C. v. Jonathan C., 519 P.3d 334 (Alaska 2022), the supreme court held that thesuperior court did not abuse its discretion by finding that a child’s best interests in preserving thefather’s parental rights outweighed the mother’s rights as a victim of sexual abuse by the child’sfather. (Id. Continue Reading »
FAMILY LAWSupreme Court of Alaska (2022)Robert BulkaIn Reed S. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, 522 P.3d 182 (Alaska 2022), thesupreme court held that collateral consequences allowed it to review an otherwise–moot appeal ofa lower court’s child–in–need–of–aid (CINA) adjudication, and found no clear error in the lowercourt’s ruling that both parents’ conduct necessitated Continue Reading »
NATIVE LAW/FAMILY LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2022) Robert Bulka In Mona J. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, 511 P.3d 553 (Alaska 2022), the supreme court held that while a lack of parental cooperation with the Office of Children’s Services (OCS) does not justify making only passive efforts to provide remedial services Continue Reading »
FAMILY LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2022) Kristiana Olson In Husby v. Monegan, 517 P.3d 20 (Alaska 2022), the supreme court held that a statute allowing modification of visitation orders applies to grandparents and that the parental preference rule does not apply when a grandparent has already been granted visitation. (Id. at 23). After a Continue Reading »
FAMILY LAW Supreme Court of Alaska Anighya H.D. Crocker In Layton v. O’Dea, 515 P.3d 92 (Alaska 2022), the supreme court held that the lower court erred when it (1) declined to consider whether a wife’s separate property transmuted to marital property through contract; and (2) found that no portion of a wife’s earnings on Continue Reading »
FAMILY LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2022) Alex Bartlow In Tiffany B. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, No. S-18111, 2022 WL 2066045 (Alaska June 8, 2022) (unpublished), the supreme court reversed the lower court’s order to terminate a mother’s parental rights, holding that the Office of Children’s Services (OCS) had not made Continue Reading »
FAMILY LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2022) Sarah Brooks In Wright v. Dropik, 514 P.3d 655 (Alaska 2022), the supreme court held that when there is a dispute as to whether two people were in a domestic partnership, the court must consider various factors to determine if the people lived together in a marriage-like relationship. Continue Reading »
