CLARK v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. G020375.

62 Cal.App.4th 576 (1998)

RENEE CLARK et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, Respondent; COUNTY OF ORANGE, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

March 23, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Kayajanian & Brewsaugh and Jack J. Kayajanian for Petitioners.

Carl C. Holmes, Public Defender, Deborah A. Kwast, Chief Public Defender, Denise Gragg and Donald E. Landis, Jr., Deputy Public Defenders, and Nancy A. Space as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Laurence M. Watson, County Counsel, James L. Turner and Karyn J. Driessen, Deputy County Counsel, for Real Party in Interest.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Ann White and Mary A. Roth, Deputy Attorneys General, and Ruth Sorensen as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

SILLS, P.J.

I

A strong bipartisan consensus has emerged as to one way to hold down welfare costs: Require absent parents, usually fathers, to keep up their child support obligations. (See Wehunt v. Ledbetter (11th Cir.1989) 875 F.2d 1558, 1561 [quoting a 1988 Sen. Rep. regarding certain amendments to the Social Security Act: "The bill reported by the...

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