Access properties of a movie on the timeline

I am trying to buil a project which contains two movie clips and I need to access the properties of clipA from within timeline of clipB.
if the parent property specifes a path to display objects that are above the current display object in the display list hierarchy, which property points to objects that are bellow ?
I´m sure this must be easy to answer. I just can´t seem to figure it out.
Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm not sure how to interpret your above/below description, but to access clipA properties from within clipB, assuming they share the same parent timeline...
AS2: _parent.clipA.property
AS3: MovieClip(this.parent).clipA.property

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