Cooper v. State

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

These cases raise the issues of whether the superior court erred in denying a parent her costs and attorney’s fees in a child in need of aid proceeding, 1 or in awarding substantially the same costs and fees on a carry-over basis in a subsequent custody proceeding.

Barbara Jo Cooper (now Tanner) and Christopher K. Cooper were married in February, 1974, and divorced in January, 1978. During their marriage the couple eared for three children, two of whom, R.J.M. and F.J.C., were Barbara Tanner’s natural children by former marriages. Only K.M.C. was a natural child of this…