The Alaska Supreme Court held that pre-partnership property stays outside domestic-partnership division and extended marital-property tracing rules to unmarried partners.
The Alaska Supreme Court held that alleged ICWA defects in foster-care placement proceedings do not invalidate a separate, error-free parental-rights termination action.
The Alaska Supreme Court held that uncorroborated testimony about an oral agreement cannot overcome the presumption that inherited funds commingled in a marital home became marital property.
The Alaska Supreme Court considered a post-appeal amended order despite procedural error and upheld termination because the record established neglect and failure to remedy.
The Alaska Supreme Court held that a child aged ten or eleven cannot nullify a GAL’s waiver of psychotherapy privilege, but may seek protection under CINA Rule 9’s balancing test.
The Alaska Supreme Court adopted a first-to-file rule for concurrent state and tribal child-custody cases and required exhaustion of tribal remedies before a state-court jurisdictional challenge.
The Alaska Supreme Court held that Civil Rule 60(a) permitted a trial court to correct custody findings drafted by counsel that materially departed from the court’s oral ruling.
The Alaska Supreme Court held that reversal of a parental-rights termination did not toll the one-year deadline to challenge a separate adoption decree, leaving the reopened CINA case moot.