# Coghill v. Coghill

> Alaska Supreme Court · July 10, 1992 · 836 P.2d 921

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9631701

## Case

- **Full name:** Jerald F. COGHILL, Sr., Appellant, v. Darla J. COGHILL, Appellee
- **Court:** Alaska Supreme Court
- **Decided:** July 10, 1992
- **Citations:** 836 P.2d 921; 1992 Alas. LEXIS 85; 1992 WL 158373
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Burke
- **Judges:** Rabinowitz, C.J., and Burke, Matthews, Compton and Moore
- **Cited by:** 42 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding exceptions such as “good cause” not unconstitutionally vague “so long as judges and hearing commissioners contin-. ue to exercise their discretion to achieve equitable results consistent with existing case law”
- stating that trial court has discretion to choose method best approximating obli-gor's future earning capacity on basis of most complete evidence before it
- stating that “the custodial and noncustodial parents are clearly not similarly situated for the purposes of child support”
- holding it was not abuse of discretion for trial court to rely on financial information from 1989, as opposed to data from 1990, because older data was more complete
- holding that Rule 90.3 does not violate equal protection and due process

## Opinion text

BURKE, Justice,
dissenting in part.
I dissent from the holding that the support formula imposed by Civil Rule 90.3 is constitutionally valid. The enactment of such a provision requires, in my judgment, the exercise of legislative power, which the court does not possess. The legislative power of the state is vested in the legislature. Alaska Const. art. II, § 1.

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