State v. Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A federally recognized Alaska Natlve tmbe has adopted a process for adjudicating the child support obligations of parents whose children are members of the tribe or are eligible for membership, and it operates a federally funded child support enforcement agency. The Tribe sued the State and won a declaratory judgment that its tribal court system has subject matter jurisdiction over child support matters and an injunction requiring the State's child support enforcement agency to recognize the tribal courts' child support orders in the same way it recognizes…