Gresham v. Department of Human Resources

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The Georgia Department of Human Resources sued the appellant pursuant to the Child Support Recovery Act, OCGA § 19-11-1 et seq., seeking to require him both to support an illegitimate minor child he had allegedly fathered and to reimburse the state for $6,231 in public assistance payments the department had allegedly made on the child’s behalf in the past. Almost a year before the suit was filed, the appellant had signed a written agreement with the department to submit to human leukocyte antigen (HLA) blood testing to determine whether he was in fact the child’s…