Steel v. Hartwick

This is an appeal by Frank I. Hartwick, Jr., from an order of the Circuit Court of Berkeley County, which denied his request for reimbursement for child support payments made to his former wife, the appellee, Evelyn Hartwick Steel. The appellant sought reimbursement on the ground that his former wife, as representative payee for his children, received social security disability benefits for the period that he sought reimbursement of his child support payments, and that under the circumstances of the case, his former wife was unjustly enriched.

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FACTS

On July 11, 1991, the appellant and the…