Alaska Family Law

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1.State statute	Alaska Statutes Title 25 - Marital and Domestic Relations
2. Fault or no-fault (typically when a state allows fault based and no-fault divorce, fault based divorces require no separation period.	Fault and no-fault
3. Equitable distribution or community property	Equitable Distribution
a. Methods of apportionment
i. Periera and Van Camp in CA
b. Property distribution factors	Alaska Property Distribution Factors
4. Legal separation?	Yes, under Article 04
a. Waiting period/Separation period	30 days
5. Is mediation required	Parties or court may request mediation.
6. Forms used	Alaska Family Law Forms
7. Alimony guidelines and factors	Alaska Statute 25.24.160
Alimony formula
a. Types	Rehabilitation support and Reorientation Support
b. Term Limits	Generally for specific period of time.  Typically rehabilitative lasts until school or job training is complete and reorientation support may last one year.
Cohabitation	If the recipient's financial needs change due to cohabitation, support may be reduced. Statute 25.24.170
c. Imputing income	If a party wants the court to impute income to another parent, must file Motion to Impute
d. Change in circumstances	"There must be a change in circumstance: a 15% change in the amount of child support ordered (this means that when you calculate support based on the non-custodial parents current income now, it is 15% more or less than the current support order), or change in parenting plan that affects which calculation is used to figure out  the child support (for example, the parenting plan changes so a primary custody calculation applies now instead of a shared custody calculation)."
e. Ceases on retirement
Impute income on early retirement	Dunn v. Dunn, 952 P.2d 268 (Alaska 1998)
Early retirement for health reasons is involuntary
f. Definition of income	(where husband retired in his 50s claiming shoulder pain but was building houses,
8. Child support factors and guidelines	Alaska Office of Child Support
9. Child support calculator	Alaska Child Support Calculator (click bypass to login)
10. Lump Sum  Support allowed?	Alaska 25-25.24.160(3)
11. Valuation
a. Valuation date
b. Goodwill divisibility	Personal goodwill is not divisible.  Enterprise goodwill is divisible. - Moffitt v. Moffitt, 749 P.2d 343 (Alaska 1988)
c. Standard of value	Fair market value
d. Discounts	Yes, Hayes v Hayes
e. Shareholder/partner agreements	Agreements should be considered
12. Double dip	Impermissible double dip, not issue because personal goodwill not divisible
a. Stock options
b. Retirement accounts
c. Child support
13. Key cases
14. Premarital agreements	May be used - does not follow Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
15. Common law	No

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