Roberts v. North Dakota Department of Human Services

NEUMANN, Justice.

[¶ 1] Helen Roberts appealed from a judgment affirming the Department of Human Services’ denial of her request for medicaid benefits. We conclude the Department’s decision is supported by a preponderance of the evidence, and we affirm.

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[¶ 2] In 1979, Roberts sold a quarter of land to her son, Daniel Kirk, under a document denominated as a mortgage deed 1 that required Kirk to pay Roberts $32,390.00 plus interest at six per cent per annum in fifteen annual installments of $3,334.97, with the first payment due on January 1, 1980, and the last payment due in 1994. In February…