King v. Smith
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| King v. Smith | |||||||||
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| Argued April 23, 1968 Decided June 17, 1968 |
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| Aid to Families with Dependent Children cannot be denied to families of qualifying children based on a substitute father. | |||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Earl Warren Associate Justices: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Abe Fortas, Thurgood Marshall |
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| Majority by: Warren Joined by: Black, Harlan II., Brennan, Stewart, White, Fortas, Marshall Concurrence by: Douglas |
King v. Smith, 392 U.S. 309 (1968), found that Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) could not be denied to Mrs. Sylvester Smith, who was having a sexual affair with a Mr. Williams.
Smith - inhabiting in Alabama - had four children, without a biological father providing support. Thus, she qualified for AFDC. However, Williams, who visited on weekends, was counted as a 'substitute father', thus disqualifying the aid. The ruling verified that the term 'father' did not include substitute fathers, and was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court.
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