Tomal v. Anderson

WINFREE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Alaska has long recognized unique legal standards for property disputes between two people ending a domestic partnership. Our case law has treated the end of a domestic partnership as coextensive with both the end of a marriage-like relationship and the end of the partners' cohabitation, as has generally been the case in the appeals we have decided. But this appeal presents the novel factual circumstance of a couple who continued living together after their marriage-like relationship ended. We must therefore clarify several aspects of our domestic partnership…