State Division of Family Services v. Clark

CROCKETT, Justice.

Three actions are combined here, in each of which the State Division of Family Services (herein called Family Services) joined with mothers of dependent children, who had been receiving support from Family Services, to initiate the actions against the defendant husband and father for reimbursement for the support that had been furnished their children.1 The defense asserted with which we are concerned here is stated by the defendants that:. the plaintiff (Family Services) has only those same rights as plaintiff obligee (the mother) has for securing reimbursement from the…