Brevard v. Brevard

ARNOLD, Judge.

This case concerns the question of whether a North Carolina district court properly ordered the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the defendant, a representative payee receiving Social Security disability payments for the benefit of his children, to pay those benefits directly to the plaintiff. The plaintiff and defendant are divorced, and the plaintiff, the children’s mother, has custody of the children.

The case reaches us as an appeal from an order of 28 June 1984, which followed a motion by the plaintiff for an accounting of the benefits defendant had received on the…