BRYNER, Justice.
After being jailed on criminal charges, Michael Bendixen moved to modify his child support payments, alleging a drop in income. The superior court held that Bendixen's incarceration was equivalent to voluntary unemployment. But serving jail time is seldom a goal of criminal misconduct, and so is not identical to purposeful unemployment; moreover, Alaska Civil Rule 90.3 imposes the same payment requirement on all parents who cannot afford support,...
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