COOPER v. STATE

Nos. 4906, 4970.

638 P.2d 174 (1981)

Barbara Jo COOPER, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee. In re R.J.M., a Minor. Christopher K. COOPER, Appellant, v. Barbara Jo COOPER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 24, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne Anthony Ross, Anchorage, for appellant-appellee Barbara Cooper.

David T. LeBlond, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee State of Alaska.

Jeanne Ames Riley, guardian ad litem for R.J.M.

Max F. Gruenberg, Jr., Gruenberg & Frenz, Anchorage, for appellant Christopher K. Cooper.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, and MATTHEWS, JJ., and GERALD VAN HOOMISSEN and WARREN W. TAYLOR, Superior Court Judges.


OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

These cases raise the issues of whether the superior court erred in denying a parent her costs and attorney's fees in a child in need of aid proceeding,1 or in awarding substantially the same costs and fees on a carry-over basis in a subsequent custody proceeding.

Barbara Jo Cooper (now Tanner) and Christopher K. Cooper were married in February, 1974...

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