Michael P. Rego, Appellant v. Joanna M. Rego, Appellee

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed the custody-modification order awarding Joanna primary physical custody if Michael moved to New Jersey. It held that the planned relocation constituted a substantial change in circumstances, that the superior court correctly assumed the legitimate move would occur and compared the resulting custodial arrangements symmetrically, and that the best-interests findings were not an abuse of discretion or clearly erroneous.