COM., DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE v. Woolf

MONTGOMERY, Judge:

The Appellant filed the instant appeal from an Order of the lower court that he pay a weekly support payment towards the cost of the care of his minor child. The sole issue presented is whether Appellant can be held liable for such support payments after an Order was entered for the voluntary relinquishment of the child by Appellant to an agency under the Adoption Act (Act of July 24, 1970, P.L. 620, No. 208, art. I., 1 P.S. § 101, et seq.).

The parties agree that Appellant and his former wife were married in 1967 and subsequently divorced in 1972. During their marriage, they…