44:1-148 - Complaint by director of welfare - New Jersey Statutes

44:1-148.  Complaint by director of welfare    When a director of welfare having jurisdiction in such cases believes that such desertion or willful refusal or neglect to so provide for any such wife, children or parents, or any of them, will cause the family to become chargeable  as poor persons to any county, municipality or joint county district, he shall  make complaint before a court having jurisdiction in the municipality, county  or district where the persons reside or in the place where the father, husband  or child resides.

     Amended by L.1953, c. 42, p. 780, s. 16, eff. March 19, 1953.