Bennett v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that superior court's retroactive child support award to father was abuse of discretion because, although father was court-designated custodial parent, mother had de facto custody
• holding that proper interpretation of court order is question of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• D.J. v. P.C.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2001-12-05· cited 64×
• Mendel-Gleason v. Harris
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2011-09-02· cited 38×
• Runyon v. Ass'n of Village Council Presidents
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2004-01-30· cited 29×
• Ward v. Urling
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-09-14· cited 29×
• Fred Meyer of Alaska, Inc. v. Bailey
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2004-11-05· cited 25×
• Bishop v. Clark
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2002-09-13· cited 24×
• Sharpe v. Sharpe
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2016-01-08· cited 17×
• Robertson v. Riplett
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2008-10-24· cited 17×
• Wilhour v. Wilhour
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2013-09-06· cited 16×
• In Re Adoption of Keith MW
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2003-10-31· cited 15×
• Atkins v. Vigil
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2002-11-22· cited 15×
• Pam R. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2008-05-23· cited 14×
• Potter v. Potter
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2002-09-27· cited 14×
• Oakly Enterprises, LLC v. NPI, LLC
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2015-08-28· cited 11×
• Turner v. Alaska Communications Systems Long Distance, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2003-10-10· cited 10×
• Co v. Matson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2013-11-29· cited 10×
• Williams v. Crawford
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 7×
• Murphy v. Newlynn
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2001-11-02· cited 6×
• Mallory D. v. Malcolm D.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2013-09-20· cited 5×
• Osmar v. Mahan
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2002-08-16· cited 5×