# Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Southerland

> Court of Appeals of Arkansas · February 10, 1999 · 65 Ark. App. 97

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9776962

## Case

- **Full name:** ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES v. Reuben SOUTHERLAND
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Arkansas
- **Decided:** February 10, 1999
- **Citations:** 65 Ark. App. 97; 985 S.W.2d 336; 1999 Ark. App. LEXIS 47
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Crabtree
- **Judges:** Stroud, Robbins, Jennings, Crabtree, Rogers, Meads
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Terry Crabtree, Judge, concurring. I concur in the final disposition of this case but cannot agree with some of the reasoning contained in the majority opinion. In particular, I agree completely with the discussion in Judge Rogers’s dissenting opinion regarding the effect of DHS policy on the authority of the court to fashion services for the child. However, I cannot agree with Judge Rogers in that the payments ordered by the court were for family services. The trial court clearly ordered that payments in the amount of board payments were to be made from “the regular board payment funding source.” As Judge Stroud points out, that regular board payment funding source is tied directly to federal funds and statutes. But for the trial court’s order directing funds to be paid out of that specific fund, I would join the dissenting judges. However, because I feel the outcome is correct, I join in the majority.

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