COM., DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE v. Woolf

How courts have described this case

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• parent may not seek to avoid support obligation by the “mere filing of a petition to terminate parental rights”
• parent may not seek to avoid support obligation by the \mere filing of a petition to terminate parental rights\
• Father may not intentionally escape child support obligations by channeling money into unprofitable businesses.
• “In interpreting a statute, it must be construed as an integral part of the whole structure affected and not a separate matter housing an independent meaning of its own.”
• “In interpreting a statute, it must be construed as an integral part of the whole structure affected and not a separate matter having an independent meaning of its own. ”
• statute “was not designed to permit a parent to avoid a support obligation by the mere filing of a petition to terminate parental rights, any more than a parent is permitted to ‘bargain away’ the obligation by any other means”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).