IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF JONES


170 N.J. Super. 478 (1979)

406 A.2d 1331

IN THE MATTER OF THE GUARDIANSHIP OF JOSE JONES.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided October 1, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gerald P. Burke attorney for appellant Camden County Welfare Board.

Messrs. Steinberg, Steinberg & Ginsberg attorneys for cross-appellant Janet Jones (Mr. Isaiah Steinberg on the brief).

Mr. John J. Degnan, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney for intervenor-appellant, Department of Human Services, Division of Public Welfare (Mr. Stephen Skillman, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Ms. Andrea M. Silkowitz, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

Before Judges LORA, ANTELL and PRESSLER.


The opinion of the court was delivered by PRESSLER, J.A.D.

This is a welfare reimbursement case.

In February 1972 Jose Jones, then six years old and receiving welfare assistance from the Camden County Welfare Board (Board), was injured in an automobile accident. Upon the Board's request, his mother Janet Jones signed an agreement in June 1974 undertaking to repay the Board in the amount of its assistance out of the prospective proceeds of the child's still...

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