State v. Morrison

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

In March of 1992, a mother assigned her right to establish paternity of her son, and her right to collect child support, to the State of Arkansas’s Office of Child Support Enforcement. In April 1992, the Office of Child Support Enforcement, appellant, filed a paternity suit against John M. Morrison, appellee. In the suit, appellant Office sought a declaration of paternity, current and back child support, lying-in expenses, health care insurance, and costs. The chancellor heard the case, determined paternity, and, in order to immediately start child support payments,…