Alaska Supreme Court
Robert Wills v. Aniela Humphries, f/k/a Aniela Whah-Wills
February 21, 2025564 P.3d 272
Summary
The court held that a superior court may offset one parent’s attorney-fee debt against that parent’s child-support obligation when clear and convincing evidence establishes good cause and the offset is in the children’s best interests. It concluded that the superior court properly found manifest injustice would result without the offset and did not abuse its discretion in ordering it. The court also rejected or deemed waived the father’s challenge to the offset calculation because the asserted error was either inadequately briefed or had been corrected before the order was entered.