Bootes v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The Pennsylvania Public Assistance Manual governing eligibility for AFDC applicants dictates that, “as a condition of continued eligibility for AFDC, each caretaker/relative ... with whom the child is living will be required to cooperate with the Department in identifying and locating the absent parent, establishing the identity of a child born out of wedlock, and obtaining support payments, unless a claim for ‘good cause’ is pending or determined to exist....” [55 Pa.Code § 187.23(a)(2).] The Manual sets forth guidelines for deciding the presence of good cause so as to excuse a caretaker/relative cooperating in the institution of a paternity or support action. It is stated therein that, “cooperation requirements will be waived if the caretaker/relative can establish that he has good cause for refusing to take support or paternity action or both against the absent parent or putative father, because to do so would not be in the ‘best interest of the child.’ ” [55 Pa.Code § 187.23(a)(3).] Specifically enumerated in the Manual are those circumstances under which cooperation in the situation of a support or paternity action may be against the best interest of the child. Amongst the situations listed is that in which serious physical or emotional harm would result to the mother with whom the child is living to the degree that it reduces her capacity to care for the child adequately. [55 Pa.Code § 187.23(a)(3)(i)(A)(II).] The burden of proving the existence of a good cause claim re”

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