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S.C. DEPT. OF SOC. SERVICES v. FINGERLIN

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285 S.C. 73 (1985)

328 S.E.2d 71

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, on Behalf of Elizabeth Joyce Herndon FINGERLIN, Respondent, v. Alfred Ernest FINGERLIN, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided March 18, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Sr., Asst. Atty. Gen. Nan L. Black and Asst. Atty. Gen. P. Brooks Shealy, Columbia, and Asst. Atty. Gen. G. Conrad Derrick, Florence, for respondent.

Jonathan R. Hendrix of Hendrix & Steigner, Lexington, for appellant.

Heard Feb. 20, 1985.

Decided March 18, 1985.

GREGORY, Justice:

Alfred Ernest Fingerlin challenges both the subject matter and personal jurisdiction of the Family Court for the Fifth Judicial Circuit to enforce the child support provisions of a 1970 divorce decree. We disagree and affirm.

The 1970 decree was entered in the Court of Common Pleas for the Fifth Judicial Circuit, which then had concurrent jurisdiction of domestic matters. The General...

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