Department of Human Resources v. Fleeman

Hunt, Presiding Justice.

The issue presented in this appeal is whether the Department of Human Resources (DHR) is precluded by the doctrine of collateral estoppel, or otherwise, from recovering from the alleged father child support benefits paid on behalf of a child, and from establishing the alleged father’s future obligations for child support, where the divorce decree between the mother and the alleged father states that the parties had no minor children. We granted certiorari to Fleeman v. Dept. of Human Resources, 208 Ga. App. 97 (430 SE2d 135) (1993), in which the Court of Appeals held…