Legal Opinion
Harris v. Westfall
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided April 30, 2004No. S-10819PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EASTAUGH, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
Was it an abuse of discretion to deny Julia Harris’s Alaska Civil Rule 60(b) motion to set aside a child support order that awarded child support against her? Unrebutted facts described in Harris’s supporting affidavit and her attorney’s memorandum established that (1) the child support order proposed by the other parent and adopted by the court contained material misrepresentations, and (2) Harris inadvertently failed to realize that her meritorious objections to the proposed child support order had not been filed. We therefore vacate the child support…
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