Stone v. Brewster

HOOD, Chief Judge.

The District of Columbia Public Assistance Act of 1962, 1 makes the husband, wife, father, mother, or adult child of a person in need of public assistance responsible, according to his ability to pay, for the support of such person; and the statute provides that such person may bring an action to require any of the named responsible persons to provide such support. Such an action must be brought in the Domestic Relations Branch of the trial court, and that court is given the power to make orders requiring the responsible person to pay “such sum or sums of money in such…