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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 23. Adoption › Sec. 25.23.200. Investigation of home for subsidized hard-to-place child.

Persons who are caring for a hard-to-place child on a foster parent basis and who have applied to adopt the hard-to-place child and to receive payments for the care and support of the hard-to-place child shall be evaluated as to their suitability as adoptive parents by means of an adoptive home study. Persons who are caring for a hard-to-place child in the state's custody and who wish to be appointed legal guardians of the child under AS 13.26.132, and to receive payments for the care and support of the child, shall be evaluated as to their suitability as guardians by means of a guardianship study. A home study or guardianship study shall be made by the commissioner's adoption staff or on the commissioner's behalf by an authorized agency or individual that provides adoption services.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 23. Adoption › Sec. 25.23.210. Amount and duration of subsidy payments.

(a) The department may adopt regulations to set the amount and length of time that a subsidy for a hard-to-place child may be granted.
(b) A subsidy granted by the department under this section may be
(1) paid for a specified length of time not to extend after the child's 18th birthday; and
(2) a deferred subsidy; in this paragraph, “deferred subsidy” means that no monetary reimbursement is paid to a family but other benefits are paid for the child.
(c) A subsidy granted under this section may not
(1) exceed the existing rate for foster care; or
(2) be changed without the written request or consent of the person caring for the child.
(d) The department shall review whether the amount of a subsidy granted for a child is appropriate on request of the person caring for the child.
(e) Subsidies shall be paid from the same public funds and in the same manner as foster care payments.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 23. Adoption › Sec. 25.23.240. Definitions.

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,
(1) “adult” means an individual who has reached the age of majority;
(2) “agency” means any person certified, licensed, or otherwise specially empowered by law or regulation to place minors for adoption;
(3) “child” means a son or daughter, whether by birth or by adoption;
(4) “commissioner” means the commissioner of family and community services;
(5) “court” means the superior court of this state, and, when the context requires, the court of another state empowered to grant petitions for adoption or guardianship or to terminate parental rights;
(6) “department” means the Department of Family and Community Services;
(7) “hard-to-place child” means a minor who is not likely to be adopted or to obtain a guardian by reason of physical or mental disability, emotional disturbance, recognized high risk of physical or mental disease, age, membership in a sibling group, racial or ethnic factors, or any combination of these conditions;
(8) “minor” means a person who has not reached the age of majority;
(9) “sexual abuse of a minor” means a sexual offense defined in AS 11.41.434, 11.41.436, 11.41.438, or 11.41.440;
(10) “sexual assault” means a sexual offense defined in AS 11.41.410 - 11.41.427;
(11) “stepparent” means the spouse of a natural parent of the child residing in the same household.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.020. Void marriages.

A marriage which is prohibited by law on account of consanguinity between the persons, or a subsequent marriage contracted by a person during the life of a former husband or wife which marriage has not been annulled or dissolved is void.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.030. Voidable marriages.

A marriage may be declared void for any of the following causes existing at the time of the marriage:
(1) that the party in whose behalf it is sought to have the marriage declared void was under the age of legal consent, and the marriage was contracted without the consent of the parents, guardian, or person having charge of that party, unless, after attaining the age of consent, the party for any time freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife;
(2) that either party was of unsound mind, unless that party, after coming to reason, freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife;
(3) that the consent of either party was obtained by fraud, unless that party afterwards, with full knowledge of the facts constituting the fraud, freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife;
(4) that the consent of either party was obtained by force, unless that party afterwards freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife;
(5) failure to consummate the marriage at the time of the marriage and continuing at the commencement of the action.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.040. Action to declare marriage valid.

When either the husband or wife claims or pretends that the marriage is void or voidable, the other spouse may bring an action to have the marriage declared valid. The court may determine if the marriage is void from the beginning or from the time of the judgment or that it is valid.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.050. Grounds for divorce.

A divorce may be granted for any of the following grounds:
(1) failure to consummate the marriage at the time of the marriage and continuing at the commencement of the action;
(2) adultery;
(3) conviction of a felony;
(4) wilful desertion for a period of one year;
(5) either
(A) cruel and inhuman treatment calculated to impair health or endanger life;
(B) personal indignities rendering life burdensome; or
(C) incompatibility of temperament;
(6) habitual gross drunkenness contracted since marriage and continuing for one year prior to the commencement of the action;
(7) [Repealed, § 68 ch 127 SLA 1974.]
(8) incurable mental illness when the spouse has been confined to an institution for a period of at least 18 months immediately preceding the commencement of the action; the status as to the support and maintenance of the mentally ill person is not altered in any way by the granting of the divorce;
(9) addiction of either party, subsequent to the marriage, to the habitual use of opium, morphine, cocaine, or a similar drug.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.090. Use of spouse's residence.

Where one spouse is plaintiff in an action for divorce or to declare void a marriage that was not solemnized in the state, the residence of the other spouse in this state inures to the plaintiff's benefit and the action may be instituted if the other spouse is at the time of its commencement qualified as to residence to institute a similar action.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.110. Separate domicile or residence.

In an action for divorce, a spouse may acquire a separate residence or domicile from that of the other spouse without reference among other factors to misconduct or consent of the other spouse.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.120. Defenses to adultery.

In a divorce action for adultery, the following defenses may be made:
(1) procurement;
(2) connivance;
(3) the act has been expressly forgiven or impliedly forgiven by the voluntary cohabitation of the parties after knowledge of the act;
(4) the plaintiff is also guilty of adultery and without procurement or connivance of the defendant and not forgiven as provided in the defenses to adultery; or
(5) the action has not been commenced within two years after the discovery of the act by the plaintiff.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.130. Defenses to other divorce grounds.

When the divorce action is for any of the grounds provided in AS 25.24.050(4)-(6), the defense of procurement or that the defendant has been expressly forgiven may be made. When the divorce action is for the ground provided in AS 25.24.050(3), the defense of procurement or that the defendant has been expressly forgiven or that the action was not brought within two years after conviction may be made.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.152. Children as dependents for tax purposes.

(a) In an action for divorce, dissolution, or to declare a marriage void, the court may not unconditionally grant to a noncustodial parent the right to claim a child as a dependent under federal income tax laws. The court may grant a noncustodial parent the right to claim a child as a dependent under federal tax laws for a tax year if the noncustodial parent satisfies the requirements of federal law and was not in arrears at the end of the tax year in an amount more than four times the monthly obligation under
(1) a support order applicable to the child in cases where a payment schedule has not been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under the support order; or
(2) a payment schedule if a payment schedule has been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under a support order applicable to the child.
(b) In this section, “noncustodial parent” means the parent who has actual physical custody of the child for less time than the other parent.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.155. Reservation of issues.

(a) The court may not delay or reserve a custody decision under AS 25.24.150(f) or an issue of property division under AS 25.24.160(c) unless
(1) each party, and the guardian ad litem if one has been appointed under AS 25.24.310, expressly agrees on the record to the delay or reservation; or
(2) a party who moves for an order of delay or reservation shows good cause and the court finds that the interests of a party opposing the motion will not be jeopardized by the delay or reservation.
(b) The court may not grant a motion under (a)(2) of this section if the court finds that granting the motion would
(1) put the opposing party's interests substantially at risk due to the death of the other party before a final disposition of the marital property;
(2) diminish the ability of the party opposing the motion to protect the value of assets not in the party's control;
(3) not be in the best interests of each minor child whose custody would remain unresolved if the motion were granted;
(4) have adverse tax consequences for the opposing party; or
(5) have adverse consequences on the opposing party's ability to maintain existing health insurance coverage.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.165. Change of name in divorce or annulment.

(a) In a judgment in an action for divorce or action declaring a marriage void, the court may change the name of either of the parties.
(b) If a party seeks a change of name to a name other than a prior name, the court shall set a date for hearing not less than 40 days after filing of the action. Notice of the application for a change of name to a name other than a prior name and the date of the hearing shall be published once each week for four consecutive calendar weeks before the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the judicial district. The court may also require posting of the notice at locations it considers appropriate. The court shall by judgment authorize the party to assume the new name not less than 30 days after issuance of the judgment, if the court is satisfied that no reasonable objection exists to assumption of the new name. Within 10 days after issuance of the judgment the party shall publish notice of the approval of the name change in a newspaper of general circulation in the judicial district. The court may also require the posting of a copy of the judgment.
(c) This section does not apply to a person who seeks a change of name other than a prior name and who is committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections, on probation under AS 33.05, on parole under AS 33.16, or required to register as a sex offender under AS 12.63.
(d) A person seeking a change of name to a prior name under this section shall notify the court if the person is
(1) committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections, on probation under AS 33.05, or on parole under AS 33.16; a person subject to this paragraph shall provide proof satisfactory to the court that notice of the petition has been provided to the person's assigned probation or parole officer;
(2) required to register as a sex offender under AS 12.63; a person subject to this paragraph shall provide proof satisfactory to the court that notice of the petition has been provided to the Department of Public Safety; or
(3) charged with an offense; a person subject to this paragraph shall provide the court with the case number associated with the offense.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 1. Divorce and Annulment. › Sec. 25.24.170. Modification of judgment.

(a) Subject to AS 25.20.110, any time after judgment the court, upon the motion of either party, may set aside, alter, or modify so much of the judgment as may provide for alimony, for the appointment of trustees for the care and custody of the minor children or for their nurture and education, for the care, nurture, and education of unmarried 18-year-old children of the marriage while they are actively pursuing a high school diploma or an equivalent level of technical or vocational training and living as dependents with a parent, guardian, or designee of the parent or guardian, or for the maintenance of either party to the action.
(b) For the purposes of a motion to modify or terminate child support, the adoption or enactment of guidelines or a significant amendment to guidelines for determining support is a material change in circumstances if the guidelines are relevant to the motion. As necessary to comply with 42 U.S.C. 666, a periodic modification of child support may be made without a showing of a material change in circumstances if the child support order being modified on the periodic basis has not been modified or adjusted during the three years preceding the periodic modification.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 2. Dissolution of Marriage. › Sec. 25.24.232. Children as dependents for tax purposes.

(a) Notwithstanding other provisions of AS 25.24.200 - 25.24.260, the court may not grant a final decree of dissolution that incorporates an agreement between the parties if the agreement unconditionally entitles a noncustodial parent to claim a child as a dependent under federal income tax laws. The court may incorporate into the decree of dissolution an agreement between the parties that entitles a noncustodial parent to claim a child as a dependent under federal tax laws for a tax year if the noncustodial parent satisfies the requirements of federal law and was not in arrears at the end of the tax year in an amount more than four times the monthly obligation under
(1) a support order applicable to the child in cases where a payment schedule has not been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under the support order; or
(2) a payment schedule if a payment schedule has been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under a support order applicable to the child.
(b) In this section, “noncustodial parent” means the parent who has actual physical custody of the child for less time than the other parent.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 2. Dissolution of Marriage. › Sec. 25.24.240. Effect and modification of decree.

(a) A decree of dissolution issued under AS 25.24.200 - 25.24.260 shall have the same force and effect as a decree granted under AS 25.24.010 - 25.24.180.
(b) A decree of dissolution granted under AS 25.24.200 - 25.24.260 may be modified or enlarged as prescribed by AS 25.24.150 - 25.24.170.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 2. Dissolution of Marriage. › Sec. 25.24.250. Forms.

(a) The Department of Law, in cooperation with the administrator of the Alaska Court System, shall prepare forms and instructions for use by persons wishing to obtain a dissolution of their marriage under AS 25.24.200 - 25.24.260 and wishing to utilize the services of the child support services agency. The forms shall conform to the requirements of the Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure, except that information appearing on the forms in legible handwriting shall be acceptable.
(b) Forms prepared under (a) of this section shall be made available to the public at each office of the division of social services of the Department of Health, and every superior court, and wherever else considered necessary by the Department of Law.
(c) Forms or instructions prepared under (a) of this section must specify that the dissolution petition constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and must provide examples of kinds of property and obligations that are subject to distribution.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 2. Dissolution of Marriage. › Sec. 25.24.260. Right to file action for divorce.

No spouse may be precluded from filing an action for divorce under AS 25.24.010 - 25.24.180 upon dismissal or denial of a petition filed under AS 25.24.200 - 25.24.260.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 4. Legal Separation. › Sec. 25.24.410. Grounds for a legal separation.

A legal separation may be granted by the court based on a finding that
(1) an incompatibility of temperament exists between the parties; and
(2) the continuation of the parties' status as married persons preserves or protects significant legal, financial, social, or religious interests.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 4. Legal Separation. › Sec. 25.24.440. Applicability of other statutes.

The following statutes relating to divorce actions shall be applied similarly to an action for legal separation: AS 25.24.060, 25.24.140, 25.24.150, 25.24.152, 25.24.160, and 25.24.170.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 4. Legal Separation. › Sec. 25.24.450. Decree.

(a) If a court finds that the grounds specified under AS 25.24.410 exist, the court may enter a decree of legal separation.
(b) Unless otherwise provided in the decree, provisions for child custody and visitation, child support, and spousal support included in a decree of legal separation are final orders subject to modification only as provided in AS 25.20.110 and AS 25.24.170.
(c) If the decree of legal separation includes provisions for division of property and debts of the marriage, the decree must state whether the division is an interim or final order. To the extent the division is not a final order, the court shall determine the parties' respective rights to and responsibilities for property and obligations not finally distributed and as to any property or debts accrued by either party while the order is in effect.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 4. Legal Separation. › Sec. 25.24.460. Effect of separation.

A decree of legal separation does not restore the parties to the status of unmarried persons. A decree of legal separation modifies the parties' rights and responsibilities as married persons only to the extent specified in the decree of separation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 5. General Provisions. › Sec. 25.24.900. Residency of military personnel.

A person serving in a military branch of the United States government who has been continuously stationed at a military base or installation in the state for at least 30 days is considered a resident of the state for the purposes of this chapter.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 5. General Provisions. › Sec. 25.24.910. Payment of support to 18-year-olds.

When a court order or judgment provides for child support to be paid for the care of an unmarried 18-year-old child who is actively pursuing a high school diploma or an equivalent level of technical or vocational training while living as a dependent with a parent, guardian, or designee of the parent or guardian, the order or judgment may provide for the support to be paid directly to the child upon terms and conditions considered appropriate by the court.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage › Article 5. General Provisions. › Sec. 25.24.920. Provision of information to child support services agency.

For purposes of 42 U.S.C. 666 and AS 25.27.193, when a court order or judgment provides for child support to be paid, the clerk of the court shall provide a copy of the order or judgment to the child support services agency created in AS 25.27.010.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 1. General Provisions. › Sec. 25.25.102. State tribunal and support enforcement.

(a) The superior court and the child support services agency are the tribunals of this state.
(b) The child support services agency created in AS 25.27.010 is the support enforcement agency of this state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 1. General Provisions. › Sec. 25.25.103. Remedies cumulative.

(a) Remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a support order on the basis of comity.
(b) This chapter does not
(1) provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order under the law of this state; or
(2) grant a tribunal of this state jurisdiction to render judgment or issue an order relating to child custody or visitation in a proceeding under this chapter.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 1. General Provisions. › Sec. 25.25.104. Application of this chapter to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.

(a) A tribunal of this state shall apply AS 25.25.101 - 25.25.616 and, as applicable, AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714, to a support proceeding involving
(1) a foreign support order;
(2) a foreign tribunal; or
(3) an obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.
(b) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of AS 25.25.101 - 25.25.616.
(c) AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714 apply only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714 is inconsistent with AS 25.25.101 - 25.25.616, AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714 controls.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.201. Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.

(a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual's guardian or conservator if
(1) the individual is personally served with a citation, summons, or notice within this state;
(2) the individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent in a record, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;
(3) the individual resided with the child in this state;
(4) the individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;
(5) the child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;
(6) the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse;
(7) the individual acknowledged parentage of a child in a writing deposited with the Bureau of Vital Statistics under AS 25.20.050; or
(8) there is another basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
(b) The bases of personal jurisdiction set out in (a) of this section or in any other law of this state may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of this state to modify a child support order of another state unless the requirements of AS 25.25.611 are met or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of AS 25.25.615 are met.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.202. Duration of personal jurisdiction.

Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of this state in a proceeding under this chapter or other law of this state relating to a support order continues as long as a tribunal of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to enforce its order as provided by AS 25.25.205, 25.25.206, and 25.25.281.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.203. Initiating and responding tribunal of this state.

Under this chapter, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.204. Simultaneous proceedings.

(a) A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the complaint or comparable pleading is filed after a complaint or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country only if
(1) the complaint or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in the other state or the foreign country for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by the other state or the foreign country;
(2) the contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in the other state or the foreign country; and
(3) if relevant, this state is the home state of the child.
(b) A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the complaint or comparable pleading is filed before a complaint or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country if
(1) the complaint or comparable pleading in the other state or the foreign country is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in this state for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by this state;
(2) the contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in this state; and
(3) if relevant, the other state or the foreign country is the home state of the child.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.205. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify child support order.

(a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child support order if the order is the controlling order and,
(1) at the time of the filing of a request for modification, this state is the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued; or
(2) even if this state is not the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued, the parties consent in a record or in open court that the tribunal of this state may continue to exercise jurisdiction to modify its order.
(b) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state may not exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the order if
(1) all of the parties who are individuals file consent in a record with the tribunal of this state that a tribunal of another state that has jurisdiction over at least one of the parties who is an individual or that is located in the state of residence of the child may modify the order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction; or
(2) the tribunal's order is not the controlling order.
(c) If a tribunal of another state has issued a child support order under this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter that modifies a child support order of a tribunal of this state, a tribunal of this state shall recognize the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal of the other state.
(d) A tribunal of this state that lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify a child support order may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to modify a support order issued in that state.
(e) A temporary support order issued ex parte or pending resolution of a jurisdictional conflict does not create continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in the issuing tribunal.
(f) [Repealed, § 32 ch 102 SLA 2015.]
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.206. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order.

(a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the laws of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce
(1) the order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction under this chapter; or
(2) a money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.
(b) A tribunal of this state having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.
(c) [Repealed, § 32 ch 102 SLA 2015.]
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.208. Child support orders for two or more obligees.

In responding to registrations or complaints for enforcement of two or more child support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, when at least one of the orders was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.209. Credit for payments.

A tribunal of this state shall credit amounts collected for a particular period under any child support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.280. Application of this chapter to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction.

A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a proceeding under this chapter, under other law of this state relating to a support order, or recognizing a foreign support order may receive evidence from outside this state under AS 25.25.316, communicate with a tribunal outside this state under AS 25.25.317, and obtain discovery through a tribunal outside this state under AS 25.25.318. In all other respects, AS 25.25.301 - 25.25.616 do not apply, and the tribunal shall apply the procedural and substantive law of this state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 2. Jurisdiction. › Sec. 25.25.281. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal support order.

(a) A tribunal of this state issuing a spousal support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal support order throughout the existence of the support obligation.
(b) A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state or foreign country.
(c) A tribunal of this state that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order may serve as
(1) an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal support order issued in this state; or
(2) a responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal support order.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.301. Proceedings under this chapter.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, AS 25.25.301 - 25.25.319 apply to all proceedings under this chapter.
(b) [Repealed, § 32 ch 102 SLA 2015.]
(c) An individual or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a complaint or a comparable pleading in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a complaint or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country that has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.303. Application of law of this state.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a responding tribunal of this state shall
(1) apply the procedural and substantive law generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in this state and may exercise all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings; and
(2) determine the duty of support and the amount payable under the law and support guidelines of this state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.304. Duties of initiating tribunal.

(a) Upon the filing of a complaint or comparable pleading authorized by this chapter, an initiating tribunal of this state shall forward the complaint or comparable pleading and its accompanying documents
(1) to the responding tribunal or appropriate support enforcement agency in the responding state; or
(2) if the identity of the responding tribunal is unknown, to the state information agency of the responding state with a request that they be forwarded to the appropriate tribunal and that receipt be acknowledged.
(b) If requested by the responding tribunal, a tribunal of this state shall issue a certificate or other documents and make findings required by the law of the responding state. If the responding tribunal is in a foreign country, upon request, the tribunal of this state shall specify the amount of support sought, convert the amount into the equivalent amount in the foreign currency under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported, and provide any other documents necessary to satisfy the requirements of the responding foreign tribunal.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.305. Duties and powers of responding tribunal.

(a) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a complaint or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly under AS 25.25.301(c), it shall cause the complaint or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.
(b) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not prohibited by law, may do one or more of the following:
(1) establish or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine the controlling child support order, or determine parentage of the child;
(2) order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance;
(3) order income withholding;
(4) determine the amount of any arrearages, and specify a method of payment;
(5) enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;
(6) set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;
(7) place liens and order execution on the obligor's property;
(8) order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor's current residential address, electronic mailing address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment;
(9) issue a bench warrant for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the bench warrant in any local and state computer systems for criminal warrants;
(10) order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;
(11) award reasonable attorney fees and other fees and costs; and
(12) grant any other available remedy.
(c) A responding tribunal of this state shall include in a support order issued under this chapter, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based.
(d) A responding tribunal of this state may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this chapter upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.
(e) If a responding tribunal of this state issues an order under this chapter, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any.
(f) If requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or judgment or modify a support order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of this state shall convert the amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.306. Inappropriate tribunal.

If a complaint or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of this state, the tribunal shall forward the complaint or pleading, and accompanying documents, to an appropriate tribunal in this state or another state and notify the petitioner where and when the complaint or pleading was sent.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.307. Duties of child support services agency.

(a) The child support services agency of this state, upon request, shall provide services to a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter.
(b) In providing services under this chapter to the petitioner, the child support services agency of this state shall
(1) take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent;
(2) request an appropriate tribunal to set a date, time, and place for a hearing;
(3) make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information as to income and property of the parties;
(4) send notice in a record from an initiating, responding, or registering tribunal to the petitioner within five days after receipt, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays;
(5) send a copy of a communication in a record from the respondent or the respondent's attorney to the petitioner within five days after receipt, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays; and
(6) notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over the respondent cannot be obtained.
(c) This chapter does not create or negate a relationship of attorney and client or other fiduciary relationship between the child support services agency or the attorney for the agency and the individual being assisted by the agency.
(d) A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration of a child support order in this state for enforcement or modification shall make reasonable efforts
(1) to ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order; or
(2) if two or more child support orders exist and the identity of the controlling order has not been determined, to ensure that a request for the determination is made in a tribunal having jurisdiction to do so.
(e) A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration and enforcement of a support order, arrears, or judgment stated in a foreign currency shall convert the amounts stated in the foreign currency into the equivalent amounts in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.
(f) A support enforcement agency of this state shall issue or request a tribunal of this state to issue a child support order and an income withholding order that redirect payment of current support, arrears, and interest if requested to do so by a support enforcement agency of another state under AS 25.25.319.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.308. Duty of the Department of Revenue.

(a) If the Department of Revenue determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the Department of Revenue may order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services directly to the individual.
(b) The Department of Revenue may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.310. Duties of state information and locator agency.

The child support services agency is the state information agency under this chapter, and it shall
(1) compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state that have jurisdiction under this chapter and the appropriate agency offices in this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;
(2) maintain a register of the names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;
(3) forward to the appropriate tribunal in this state all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter received from another state or a foreign country; and
(4) obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within this state that is not exempt from execution by postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor's address from employers, and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses, and social security.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.311. Pleadings and accompanying documents.

(a) In a proceeding under this chapter, a petitioner seeking to establish a support order to determine parentage of a child or to register and modify a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country shall file a complaint or comparable pleading. Unless otherwise ordered under AS 25.25.312, or otherwise prohibited by law, the complaint or comparable pleading or accompanying documents must provide, so far as known, the name, residential address, and social security numbers of the obligor and the obligee or the parent and the alleged parent, and the name, sex, residential address, social security number, and date of birth of each child for whose benefit support is sought or whose parentage is to be determined. Unless filed at the time of registration, the complaint or comparable pleading must be accompanied by a copy of any support order known to have been issued by another tribunal. The complaint or comparable pleading may include other information that may assist in locating or identifying the respondent.
(b) The complaint or comparable pleading must specify the relief sought. The complaint or comparable pleading and accompanying documents must conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations › Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act › Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application. › Sec. 25.25.312. Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances.

If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading under oath that the health, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by disclosure of specific identifying information, that information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety, or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the interest of justice.