Alaska Supreme Court· 11/12/1999

Hammer v. Hammer

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991 P.2d 195
1999 Alas. LEXIS 146
1999 WL 1025219

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holding that unavailability of liquid marital assets, combined with ex-wife's limited work experience, disability, and parental obligations, ' rendered award of long-term alimony appropriate
noting that extended alimony may be awarded when insufficient property exists to eliminate differences between spouses' earning capacities through an unequal property division}. 21 . See, eg., Hunt v. Hunt, 698 P.2d 1168, 1171 (Alaska 1985
upholding spousal support award based on trial court's specific calculations of wife's monthly expenses and income
affirming award of permanent spousal support as just and necessary due to spouse's lack of work experience, responsibility as child's custodial parent, her deafness, lack of job prospects, and limited ability to retrain for employment
remanding for recalculation of child support when \the superior court did not acknowledge the option of income averaging in its findings nor did it explain its reasons for relying on [the father's] most recent year of earnings\

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Judges: Matthews, Compton, Eastaugh, Fabe, Bryner

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