SEAGRAVES v. HARRIS

No. 78-2696.

629 F.2d 385 (1980)

Linda D. SEAGRAVES, Individually and on behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. Patricia Roberts HARRIS, Secretary of Health and Human Services, W. Douglas Skelton, and Tracy Teal, Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 27, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Castellani, First Asst. U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, App. Div., Washington, D.C., Randolph W. Gaines, Chief of Litigation, Jack Wojciechowski, Atty., Social Security Div., Dept. of HEW, Baltimore, Md., Linda R. Birrel, Vivian Davidson Egan, Asst. Attys. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

Myron N. Kramer, Richard K. Greenstein, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before RUBIN and POLITZ, Circuit Judges, and POINTER, District Judge.


POINTER, District Judge:

The interrelationship between an absent parent's obligation to provide child support and governmentally-funded programs to provide Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was substantially altered by Section 101 of the Social Services Amendments of 1974, effective August 1, 1975. See Public Law 93-647, 88 Stat. 2337. A basic change was that child support payments were to be made by the absent parent not to the assisted family but rather...

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