10 GCA § 2205: Children.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 10: Health and Safety
- Division 1 - Public Health
- Chapter 2: Division of Public Welfare
- ARTICLE 2: SPECIFIC PROVISIONS COVERING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
A child shall be eligible for public assistance who:
(a) Is in need and has not sufficient income or other resources to provide care and support compatible with decency and health;
(b) Has not attained the age of eighteen (18) years, or if enrolled as a high school student, has not attained the age of nineteen (19) years;
(c) Is deprived of parental support or suitable care by reason of the death, continued absence from home, physical or mental incapacity or cruelty, neglect or depravity on the part of a parent, or by the unemployment of his father, the term “unemployment” being defined by the Federal Social Security Act, as amended, (42 U.S.C. §607); and
(d) Is living in a home with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew or niece, in a place of residence maintained by such relative as his own home.
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