In re Brodine

The question presented is whether the Surrogate’s Court had the power to direct that payment should be made out of the funds of the infant, who had been committed to a private institution by an order of the Children’s Court on a charge of delinquency, for the cost of the infant’s support and maintenance at the institution.

Section 40 of the Children’s Court Act authorizes the Children’s Court Judge to order a “ parent or other person having the duty under the law to support ” a child which had been committed under the act, to pay in whole or in part for the support of the child. (See similar…