Can I Sue a Judge for Ordering Child Support Through the End of College

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Quoting llworking

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I am also going to add something here...

In an intact family, unless the parents are very poor, they are going to help their children with college costs, one way or another. That may be by co-signing student loans, it may be by providing whatever support they are able to provide, even if minimal, but they are going to help their children, and they are going to do it jointly.

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Oh I'm not so sure about that.

Many intact families WILL help. And many won't.

But yes, the bottom line is that there's at least a couple of states whose statutes CAN indeed order one or both parents to continue support through college.

Despite the protestations that the parents are not obliged to support their kids education or into adulthood, it remains legal for such support orders. The support order is a "package" and if you don't want to be potentially subject to it, your alternative is to remain married. There are serious implications to getting married and having children that just isn't undone like canceling a magazine subscription.

I agree. I grew up in a two parent household - my parents were married for 40 years. They couldn't and didn't provide any financial support for me to go to college. They couldn't even provide any practical support, because neither of them had been to college themselves. I did go to and graduate from college, but I had to figure out how to pay for it myself.

I'd say most families, period, are more likely to be unable to help their children with college tuition, rather than the reverse, especially in today's economy. And if a mom and dad would not have been able to help pay for college if they were married, then why on Earth should they be expected to do so if they aren't together?

It also seems to me it's far more expensive to maintain two separate households than one household with the parents together, so that's all the more reason why separated/divorced/never married parents shouldn't be forced to pay for college in the form of child support - they very likely don't have the additional funds to contribute to college. Any ordering of college costs through child support, I think, should be done on a case by case basis, dependent on the parents' income and expenses, not automatically.

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Quoting flyingron

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The support order is a "package" and if you don't want to be potentially subject to it, your alternative is to remain married. There are serious implications to getting married and having children that just isn't undone like canceling a magazine subscription.

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OMG why can't I find the "like" button??? We need to be putting this in billboards, busses, t-shirts, streamers behind planes at the beach, blimps....etc....