Legal Opinion
Clark v. Commissioner of Income Maintenance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided December 20, 1988No. 13468PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.
The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether income “available” to an institutionalized incompetent for medicaid eligibility purposes includes an amount a Probate Court has ordered the incompetent to pay his at-home spouse. The plaintiff, Louise Clark, conservatrix for her husband Wilbur Clark, brought an adminstrative appeal pursuant to General Statutes § 17-2a1 claiming that the defendant, the com*392missioner of income maintenance, had awarded Wilbur Clark insufficient medicaid support by not excluding from his “available” income the amount that the Probate Court had ordered him to pay her…
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