Legal Opinion
Langan v. Weeks
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided March 7, 1995No. 12846PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDupont, C. J.
The sole issue of this appeal is whether the plaintiff,1 in exchange for receiving public assistance from the state of Connecticut, assigned to the state her right to current and future support payments from the father of her child, as well as to amounts already owed to her by him, but not yet paid at the time of her application, for periods of time when she was not receiving benefits. We conclude that the trial court was correct in determining that the assignment was valid.
The defendant, John Weeks, was adjudicated the father of the plaintiffs child in 1986 and ordered to make support…
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- Peck v. JacqueminSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1985
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3Cited by13 opinions
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