Legal Opinion
Concerned Parents of Stepchildren v. Mitchell
Utah Supreme Court
Decided March 24, 1982No. 16870PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEWART, Justice:
The basic issue in this case is whether the State of Utah unlawfully terminated benefits for stepchildren paid pursuant to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a cooperative federal-state welfare-type program administered by the states and funded on a matching fund basis by both the state and federal governments.
The AFDC program was created by Title IV-A of the Social Security Act, 49 Stat. 620, as amended, 42 U.S.C., § 601 et seq. The state statutory provisions providing for the administration of the program are found in Utah Code Ann., 1953, § 55-15a-l et…
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