Opinion ID: 2387351
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Heading: sufficiency of the evidence

Text: The Workers' Compensation Commission found specifically that Mr. Brown was actually supporting his children prior to his death. While it was not in the form of child-support payments, he was contributing to their welfare by spending money for their support. Mr. Brown was the legal custodian of two of the children, and no doubt he would have been found to have had an obligation to support them as well as the child of whom Mrs. Penick had legal custody if the matter had arisen in a support proceeding. Lawhon's argument that the evidence is insufficient to support the Commission's decision is inextricable from its argument that our Roach decision has been overruled and that we therefore should not consider whether the evidence was sufficient to show a reasonable expectation of support as satisfying the wholly and actually language. Having dealt with that issue above, we need only say here that, in determining the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the findings of the Workers' Compensation Commission, we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commission's findings and affirm if they are supported by substantial evidence. Golden v. Westark Community College, 333 Ark. 41, 969 S.W.2d 154 (1998); Gansky v. Hi-Tech Engineering, 325 Ark. 163, 924 S.W.2d 790 (1996). Our conclusion is that the evidence supporting the Commission's decision, i.e., that the children had a reasonable expectation of support from Mr. Brown, is substantial. Affirmed. CORBIN, J., not participating.