COM., DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE, ETC. v. Alvin

WATKINS, Judge:

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, Domestic Relations Section, which dismissed a rule to show cause why a prior order of the court granting the appellee credit against the arrearages on a support order for payment made directly to relatrix, whose claim for arrearages had been assigned of record to the Department of Public Welfare, should not be set aside ab initio.

An order for support of Doris Alvin, nee Martinez, and one child, later amended for two children, in the above court was in arrears several thousand dollars. Mrs.…