The purposes of this Article are to provide for the financial support of dependent children; to enforce spousal support when a child support order is being enforced; to provide that public assistance paid to dependent children is a supplement to the support required to be provided by the responsible parent; to provide that the payment of public assistance creates a debt to the State; to provide that the acceptance of public assistance operates as an assignment of the right to child support; to provide for the location of absent parents; to provide for a determination that a responsible parent is able to support his children; and to provide for enforcement of the responsible parent's obligation to furnish support and to provide for the establishment and administration of a program of child support enforcement in North Carolina.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 110-128
Purposes
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Settle by and Through Sullivan v. Beasley (1983)
Most recently applied in 191 N.C. App. 693 - GUILFORD COUNTY EX REL. HOLT v. Puckett (August 2008)
1975, c. 827, s. 1; 1977, 2nd Sess., c. 1186, s. 1; 1985, c. 506, s. 2.
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