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Schenck v. Knight
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"Q. How would this new baby if the court gives it to them today, how would it fit into the home?

A. Well, right now, I think they are just in the temporary ah—motel—I mean, house trailer.

Q. Yes, sir?

A. And until they find a bigger house, and I've got some property up on Beaver Fork Lake that I'd be willing to give them a deed with it.

Q. To build a home?

A. Build about a three bedroom house."

Mr. Nabholz testified that it was necessary for him and his wife to contribute substantially to Mrs. Brown and her children for food and clothing until they started receiving money from the Welfare Department, and that his and his wife's burden has been considerably relieved by the Welfare Department.

Mrs. Winburn, Social Worker for the state Welfare Department in Faulkner County, Dick Deitz, Child Services Field Supervisor in Faulkner County, Mrs. Mary Jane Moix, Social Worker in the Arkansas Department of Social Services for Faulkner County, Mr. Bryan David Cordell, Field Supervisor for the Family and Children's Division of the Arkansas Social Services, and Mrs. Darla Byers, Case Worker for the Family and Children's Services of the state Welfare Department, Mrs. Mary Jane Madigan, Supervisor of unmarried mothers for the Family and Children's Services, and Bobbie Smith, Executive Director of the Florence Crittenton Home, as well as Dr. John E. Peters and Cleo Goolsby, who interviewed Mrs. Brown and Donna Marie under direction of the chancellor, all testified under questioning by the chancellor as well as the attorneys. It would only lengthen this opinion to set out their testimony in detail but the substance of all of it is to the effect that Mrs. Brown is an unemployed mother of four dependent children, two of whom are afflicted, as already set out; that Mrs. Brown is totally over-