Duncan v. Smith

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Arthur R. Smith, a citizen and taxpayer of Jefferson 'County, in a declaratory judgment proceeding against the county attorney and other appropriately selected defendants, questioned the validity of the Act of the 1950 General Assembly known as the “Uniform Support of Dependents Act,” KRS 407.010 to 407.090. The chancellor, Honorable Macauley L. Smith, in a well reasoned opinion, upheld the Act. Smith and the county attorney have appealed, asserting eight alleged grounds of invalidity of the Act.

We will briefly summarize the provisions of the Act before undertaking…