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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 44, POOR

    Chapter 4:

      Section: 44:4-108: Willful deserter as disorderly person; punishment

           A husband or father who willfully deserts or refuses or neglects to provide for and maintain his wife or children, or any of them, or a mother who willfully deserts or refuses or neglects to provide for and maintain her children, or any of them, or a child who willfully deserts or refuses or neglects to provide for and maintain his parents, or either of them, is a disorderly person, and upon being so adjudged shall be committed to the workhouse or county jail of the county or of that county composing a district in which the person resided at the time of the desertion or failure to provide for a period not exceeding sixty days in the discretion of the court.

Amended by L.1953, c. 42, p. 785, s. 28, eff. March 19, 1953.



This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2012-09-26 13:37:54.






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