State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. King

WENTWORTH, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order requiring a portion of child support money, remitted following legal efforts by the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, to be paid directly to the custodial parent for current obligations accruing after termination of HRS assistance, although the remaining money was insufficient to reimburse the department for public assistance previously paid on behalf of the dependent child. We affirm.

The legislatively declared public policy behind the child support enforcement provisions of our statutes is to maintain children from the…