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S.C. DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. BROWN

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272 S.C. 568 (1979)

253 S.E.2d 100

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Appellant, v. William BROWN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

March 2, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen., Daniel R. McLeod, Deputy Atty. Gen., Raymond G. Halford, Asst. Attys. Gen., W. Joseph Isaacs and Clifford O. Koon, Jr., and Staff Atty., Evans Taylor Barnette, Columbia, for appellant.

Leonard B. Burgess and William Bennett McCollough, Kingstree, for respondent.

March 2, 1979.

GREGORY, Justice:

This is a paternity action initiated by appellant South Carolina Department of Social Services [D.S.S.] against respondent William Brown. The family court found that D.S.S. failed to establish paternity. We hold the family court erred by considering irrelevant evidence and reverse.

D.S.S. brought this action in its capacity as assignee of any suport payments due the minor child who is alleged to be the offspring of...

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