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Enforcement of Support Law

Pennsylvania Department of Justice

Decided July 3, 1952Published

1Opinion of the Court

Rutherford, Deputy Attorney General, and Mau.rer, Assistant Deputy Attorney General,

This department is in receipt of your communication requesting advice on the legal responsibility of district attorneys of the various counties of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to prosecute support cases under the support laws of the Commonwealth. You inform us that for some years there has been a difference of opinion among district attorneys on the question of their legal responsibility to bring proceedings under the support laws now on the stat*319ute books. In those counties, where the district attorney…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Schnader v. LiverightSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
  2. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Minerd v. MargiottiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  3. Margiotti AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1950
  4. Commonwealth v. LehmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  5. Commonwealth v. MorriseySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1942

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