D.H. v. STATE

No. S-1451.

723 P.2d 1274 (1986)

D.H., Petitioner, v. STATE of Alaska, Respondent. In the Matter of K.H., C.H., and J.H., Minor Children Under the Age of Eighteen Years.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

August 29, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond Funk, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, Dana Fabe, Public Defender, Anchorage, for petitioner.

D. Rebecca Snow, Asst. Atty. Gen., Fairbanks, Harold M. Brown, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for respondent.

Daniel L. Callahan, Schendel & Callahan, Fairbanks, for Navajo Nation.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case concerns the appropriate standard of review for state decisions which essentially terminate a natural parent's right of reasonable visitation under AS 47.10.084(c). The Department of Health and Social Services (the state) decided to allow D.H.'s minor children, who had been adjudicated as children in need of aid, to move from Alaska to Alabama with their...

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