Messier v. Zeiller

OPINION

BOWNES, District Judge.

This ease arises out of an attempt by the New Hampshire Division of Welfare to terminate plaintiff’s Aid for Families with Dependent Children (hereinafter AFDC) benefits after an award of said benefits by an administrative fair hearing panel (the Board of Appeals). Although the underlying controversy revolves around the complex question of a family’s right to continued AFDC benefits upon the mother’s marriage to a man who is not the natural father of the children and who does not adopt them, 1 the parties have narrowed the issues in this case considerably. In her…