Tidwell v. Booker

225 S.E.2d 816 (1976)

290 N.C. 98

Shirley T. TIDWELL

v.

David BOOKER.

No. 37.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 17, 1976.

Hicks & Harris by Tate K. Sterrett, Charlotte, for plaintiff.

Reginald L. Yates, Charlotte, for defendant.

LAKE, Justice.

GS 49-2 provides that any parent, mother or father, who wilfully neglects or refuses to support his or her illegitimate child is guilty of a misdemeanor. This statute, in effect when Claudia Ann was conceived, imposed, both upon the plaintiff and the defendant, a duty to support the child. Its purpose is not to confer rights upon either the mother or the…