STATE, DHRS v. SAVAGE

No. 90-2655 to 90-2657.

570 So.2d 1089 (1990)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES and Joan G. Savage, Jill Bernadette Karcher, Mary Gibbons, Petitioners, v. Henry Ben SAVAGE, Mark Evans Karcher, Jr., & Gary Gibbons, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 4, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Boyd and William H. Branch of Boyd & Branch, P.A., and Chriss Walker, Dept. of HRS, Tallahassee, for petitioners.

N. Edward Oramas, McClellan and House, Panama City, for respondents.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioners seek to quash the dismissal of citations of contempt in child support arrearage enforcement proceedings involving three divorced couples.1 The former wives contend that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law by ruling that the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (Department) lacked standing to represent obligees who do not receive public assistance. We agree and accordingly...

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