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CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO v. GARNETT

No. A081566.

82 Cal.Rptr.2d 924 (1999)

70 Cal.App.4th 845

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Laurent M. GARNETT, Defendant and Respondent.

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

March 12, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Ann White, Statewide Child Support Coordinator, and Mary A. Roth, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Rothschild & Goldin and Laura Goldin, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent.

PARRILLI, J.

Family Code section 4071.5 provides that if welfare payments are being made for a child, a parent's child support obligation may not be reduced by the discretionary hardship deductions that would otherwise be available to the parent.1 In this case the trial court refused to apply section 4071.5, finding it unconstitutional on equal protection grounds. We reverse. The wisdom and fairness of the statute are debatable, but that...

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