Attorney Phyllis A. Shepherd's Legal Cases

Family

R. M. v. S.G., 13 P.3d. 47 ( Alaska 2000)

Dec 08, 2000

OUTCOME: Attorney Shepherd successfully represented father at trial and on appeal

Custody of three children for father was affirmed on appeal.

Child custody

In re D.J.A. 793 P.2d 1033 (Alaska 1990)

Jun 01, 1990

OUTCOME: Adoption decision was reversed, Biological mother's rights to child were not terminated.

Adoption case where i represented the biological mother. The superior court's custody decree denied P.E. any visitation rights with D.J.A. for a period of at least six months;[15] the superior court' ... s custody decree is ambiguous as to the requisite therapeutic treatment P.E. had to undergo before she could obtain visitation rights with D.J.A.;[16] and P.E. was in fact confused as to what treatment she had to undergo and what she had to demonstrate in order to lift the court imposed visitation ban. It is apparent that P.E.'s mental and emotional condition and lack of legal sophistication hampered her efforts throughout the year in question to communicate with and to obtain visitation rights with D.J.A. The trial court's decision was reversed. The biological mother prevailed.

Phyllis A. Shepherd's Legal Cases (2)

R. M. v. S.G., 13 P.3d. 47 ( Alaska 2000)

In re D.J.A. 793 P.2d 1033 (Alaska 1990)