Bagby v. Bagby

How courts have described this case

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• affirming that custodial parent’s move out of state amounts to substantial change in circumstances “as a matter of law”
• explaining why long-distance separation necessarily affects parents’ relative abilities to meet children’s needs
• “We have held that ‘a custodial parent’s decision to move out-of-state [with the children] amounts to a [substantial] change in circumstances as a matter of law.” (alterations in original) (quoting Barrett v. Alguire, 35 P.3d 1, 6 (Alaska 2001))
• “[A] custodial parent’s decision to move out-of-state with the children amounts to a substantial change in circumstances as a matter of law and the moving party is entitled to a hearing on a motion to modify custody as a matter of law.” (brackets omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).