Can Child Support Be Stopped and Started Again

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Termination of Support – Age of Majority

Termination of Support – College Support Beyond Age of Majority

Termination of Support – Exception for Adult Children with Disabilities

Alabama

Ala. Lawmaking § 26-1-1
nineteen years of age; child support ceases at the historic period of majority.

Ex parte Christopher (Ala. October. 4, 2013).
No duty to provide higher support.

Alabama law allows post-minority back up to exist paid in the case of handicapped children. The Title IV-D Agency does non aid in collecting post-minority back up.

Alaska

Alaska Stat. §25.20.010, §25.24.140(a)(iii), §25.24.170(a)
eighteen years of age; child support ceases at age of majority unless the child is enrolled in high school and living in the home of a parent, guardian, or designee of the parent or guardian.

H.P.A. 5. S.C.A., 704 P.2d 205 (Alaska 1985).
Courts may not crave either parent to pay for mail service-majority college support.

Limited provisions for disabled children and other allowances as stated in the courtroom social club

Arizona

Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 25-320(F), § 25-501(A)
eighteen years of age; if a child reaches the age of majority while the child is attending high school or a certified high school equivalency program, support shall go along to be provided during the menses in which the child is actually attending loftier school or the equivalency plan but but until the kid reaches age nineteen.

Solomon v. Findley, 167 Ariz. 409, 808 P.2d 294 (1991).
No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an agreement; courts will enforce contracts to provide such back up.

Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. §25-320(E)
The court may order back up to continue past the age of bulk if all of the following are true:
1. The courtroom has considered the factors prescribed in subsection D of this section.
two. The kid has severe mental or concrete disabilities as demonstrated past the fact that the child is unable to live independently and exist self-supporting.
three. The child's disability began before the child reached the historic period of majority.

Arkansas

Ark. Code Ann. §nine-14-237
xviii years of age; child back up ceases at historic period of majority unless the child is nonetheless attention high schoolhouse. If the kid is nevertheless attention high school, upon the child's high schoolhouse graduation or the end of the school year after the child reaches 19 years of age, whichever is earlier.

Towery five. Towery, 285 Ark. 113, 685 South.West.2nd 155 (1985).
No statute or case police holding parents to a duty to higher support in the absence of an agreement. In one case child reaches majority, the legal duty of the parents to provide back up ends.

Ark. Code Ann. §ix-12-312(a)(half-dozen)(B)
The court may also provide for the continuation of support [past 18] for an private with a disability which affects the ability of the individual to live independently from the custodial parent.

California

Cal.Fam.Code § 3901
eighteen years of age except an unmarried child who has attained the age of 18 years, is a full-time high schoolhouse student, and who is not self-supporting, is considered a pocket-sized until the time the child completes the 12th form or attains the historic period of 19 years, whichever occurs beginning.

No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an agreement.

Cal. Fam. Code §3910
The begetter and mother have an equal responsibility to maintain, to the extent of their power, a child of whatever age who is incapacitated from earning a living and without sufficient means.

Colorado

Colo. Rev. Stat. §14-10-115 (13) for orders entered after July 1, 1997; Colo. Rev. Stat. §fourteen-10-115 (xv) for orders entered prior to July 1, 1997
19 years of age unless otherwise emancipated. Emancipation occurs and child back up terminates without either party filing a motion when the concluding or only kid turns 19 unless, the child is yet in high school or an equivalent program, support continues until the end of the calendar month post-obit graduation. A child who ceases to attend high school prior to graduation and later reenrolls is entitled to support upon reenrollment and until the end of the month following graduation, but not beyond age 21.

See In re wedlock of Robb, 934 P.2d 927 (Col. Ct. App. 1997). After July one, 1997, Colo. Rev. Stat. §14-10 115(ane.6) provides the court may not so order, unless certain conditions be.
For orders entered prior to July 1, 1997, if the court finds that it is appropriate for the parents to contribute to the costs of a program of postsecondary education, then the court shall cease child support and enter an order requiring both parents to contribute to the education expenses of the child. The court may non issue orders for both child support and postsecondary educational activity to be paid at the same time.

Colo. Rev. Stat. §14-x-115(13)(a)(2)
Support may proceed after the last or only child attains age 19 if the child is physically or mentally disabled.

Connecticut

Conn. Gen. Stat. §i-1d; Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-84
18 years of age; child support ceases upon the age of majority unless the child who has attained the age of xviii and is a full-time loftier school student, and so the parents shall maintain the kid according to their respective abilities if the child is in need of maintenance until such kid completes 12th grad or attains the historic period of 19, whichever occurs first.

Conn. Gen. Stat. §46b-56c
On motion or petition of a parent, the court may enter an educational support order, at the time of a decree of dissolution, separation or annulment, with respect to the postsecondary education of a child through the age of 23. No order may be ordered at a subsequent appointment unless the decree explicitly provides for it.

Conn. Gen. Stat. §46b-84(c)
The court may make appropriate orders of back up of whatever kid with intellectual disability, as defined in section one-1g, or a mental disability or concrete disability, as defined in subdivision (15) of section 46a-51, who resides with a parent and is principally dependent upon such parent for maintenance until such child attains the age of xx-one.

Delaware

Del. Code Ann. tit. 13, §501(a)(b)(c)(d)
18 years of age, extends past majority if child is in high school and is probable to graduate or reaches of age of 19, whichever occurs outset.

No statute or case police force holding parents to a duty to higher back up in the absence of an agreement.

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District of Columbia

D.C. Code Ann. §46-101; Nelson v Nelson, 548 A.2nd 109, 111 (D.C. 1988)
Notwithstanding whatsoever rule of common or other constabulary to the contrary in result on July 22, 1976, the historic period of majority in the District of Columbia shall be xviii years of age, except that this chapter shall not bear upon any common-law or statutory correct to child support.

No statute or case law property parents to a duty to higher back up.

Nelson v Nelson, 548 A.2d 109, 111 (D.C. 1988)
Support can exist paid beyond the age of bulk if the kid is mentally or physically disabled.

Florida

Fla. Stat. §61.14(9); §743.07
xviii years of age, or beyond if the person is dependent in fact, is between the ages of xviii and 19, and is even so in loftier school, performing in expert faith with a reasonable expectation of graduation earlier the age of 19.

Slaton v. Slaton, 428 And so.2nd 347 (Fla. DCA 1983).
No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an agreement. Courts will compel postsecondary support upon a finding of bodily "dependency," but attendance at college does non necessarily return a child dependent.

Fla. Stat. §743.07(two)
This section shall not prohibit any court of competent jurisdiction from requiring support for a dependent person beyond the historic period of 18 years when such dependency is because of a mental or concrete incapacity which began prior to such person reaching majority.

Georgia

Ga. Code §39-i-1; §19-6-15(e)
18 years of age. Support social club entered later on seven/1/92 may provide for the extension of child support to age 20, if the child is still in high school.

If specified in an club.

Ga. Code §nineteen-7-ii; Code, §§ 74-104, 74-105. Crane v. Crane, 1969, 225 Ga. 605, 170 Southward.E.2d 392.

Information technology is the articulation and several duty of each parent to provide for the maintenance, protection, and didactics of his or her child until the child reaches the age of majority… except to the extent that the duty of the parents is otherwise or farther defined by courtroom order." Other examples in private orders might include boggling medical needs, handicapped, etc. Statutes providing that father'south obligation for maintenance, protection and teaching of his child ceases when kid becomes 21 years of historic period and not excepting children of bulk historic period who are mentally ill bar right of adult kid to recover support from his father across age of 21.

Guam

xix Guam Code Ann. §5102(c)
18 years of age.

Past agreement of the parents to extend the obligation beyond historic period 18.

19 Guam Code §4105.1
Payments for disabled children and for education. If a child residing on Guam is disabled before the historic period of eighteen (18), the court may, at whatever time before the child reaches the age of twenty-i (21) years, observe that both parents (or the surviving parent if one is deceased) have a mutual obligation to support the child beyond the age of majority, and based upon such findings, order either or both of the parents to pay continuing child support for the benefit of such child straight to the child or his guardian, as is advisable. Such support may be modified in the same mode every bit kid support may exist terminated if no longer needed, shall proceed for every bit long as the child is disabled and requires support, and shall be treated as kid back up for purposes of this Championship…

Hawaii

Hawaii Rev. Stat. §577-1; Hawaii Rev. Stat. § 576E-14; Hawaii Rev. Stat. § 584-xviii
18 years of age; child support ceases upon age 19 unless proof is showingn that child is before long enrolled every bit a total-time student in school or has been accepted into and plans to attend equally a total-time student for the next semester a post-high school university, higher or vocational school.

Hawaii Rev. Stat. § 576E-xiv ; Hawaii Rev. Stat. § 584-18

In those cases where child support payments are to continue due to the adult child'southward pursuance of teaching, the bureau, at to the lowest degree three months prior to the adult child's nineteenth birthday, shall transport notice by regular post to the adult child and the custodial parent that prospective child support will be suspended unless proof is provided past the custodial parent or developed child to the child support enforcement agency, prior to the kid's nineteenth birthday, that the child is presently enrolled every bit a full-time student in school or has been accustomed into and plans to attend every bit a full-fourth dimension student for the next semester a post-high school university, college or vocational schoolhouse. (a) The court shall take continuing jurisdiction to alter or revoke a judgment or club: (1) For future education and support;

Haw. Rev. Stat. §580-47(a)
Provision may be made … for the back up, maintenance, and didactics of an incompetent adult child whether or non the petition is made earlier or later on the child has attained the age of majority.

Idaho

Idaho Lawmaking §32-706
eighteen years of historic period; May go along until kid discontinues their high school education or reaches age nineteen, whichever occurs first.

No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to higher support in the absence of an independent agreement.

Idaho Code §32-706
The court must take into account the physical and emotional condition and the needs of the kid until the child is eighteen years of historic period.

Illinois

Ill. Rev. Stat. ch. 755, §v/11-1; Sick Rev. Stat. ch. 750 §5/505
18 years of historic period, or 19 if the kid is still attention high school.

IL ST CH 750 § 5/513
The court may brand provisions for the education expenses of the children of the marriage, whether of small or majority age, until the historic period of 25.

IL ST CH 750 § 5/513.five

The courtroom may award sums of coin out of the property and income of either or both parties or the estate of a deceased parent, as equity may require, for the back up of a child of the parties who has attained majority when the child is mentally or physically disabled and not otherwise emancipated.

Indiana

Ind. Code §31-16-6-six
nineteen years of age, unless a child is emancipated at a younger age. If the child is enrolled full-fourth dimension in a secondary school, child support continues until the child'southward graduation.

Ind. Lawmaking § 31-sixteen-6-half dozen(c); Ind. Code § 31-sixteen-half-dozen-2

If ordered before July i, 2012, educational needs support is possible until age 21. If ordered after June 30, 2012, educational needs back up is possible until age 19. Kid back up order may include sums for the child'southward education at institutions of higher learning, where appropriate.

Ind. Code §31-16-half dozen-half dozen(a)(2)
If a child is incapacitated, child back up continues during the incapacity or until farther order of the court.

Iowa

Iowa Lawmaking §599.1; Iowa Code §252A.three(2)
18 years of age.  May extend to xix if child is pursuing completion of high school or the equivalent.

Iowa Code § 598.1(8); Iowa Lawmaking §598.1(ix); Iowa Code §598.21f

"Postsecondary education subsidy" means an obligation which may include support for a child who is between the ages of 18 and 22 who is regularly attending an accredited school or is, in good faith, a full-time student in higher or has been accepted for admission to college for the next term. The court may lodge a postsecondary education subsidy if good cause is showingn.

Iowa Code §252A.3(three)
The parents are severally liable for the support of a dependent kid xviii years of age or older, whenever such child is unable to maintain the child's self and is likely to become a public charge.

Kansas

Kan. Stat. Ann. §38-101; Kan. Stat. Ann. §23-3001
18 years of historic period; 16 years if married; child support ceases at age xviii unless the child reaches 18 before completing the kid's high school education, but no later on than historic period 19.

No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of a written agreement.

Kan. Stat. Ann. §23-3001
Support shall terminate at 18 years of age unless parents agree, by written agreement, to pay support beyond 18.

Kentucky

Ky. Rev. Stat. §403.213(3)
18 years of age, 19 if attention high school.

No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an understanding.

Ky. Rev. Stat. §405.020(2)
The father and mother shall accept the joint custody, intendance, and support of their children who have reached the age of eighteen and who are wholly dependent considering of permanent physical or mental disability.

Louisiana

La. Civil Lawmaking Ann. fine art. 29; La. Stat. Ann. § ix:315.22
18 years of age; may continue if the child is a full-fourth dimension educatee in proficient-standing enrolled in secondary school or its equivalent, has non reached age nineteen, and is dependent upon either parent.

No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an agreement.

La. Rev. Stat. § nine:315.22
D. An award of child support continues with respect to whatsoever child who has a developmental disability, equally divers in R.Due south. 28:451.2, until he attains the age of twenty-2, equally long as the child is a total-time student in a secondary schoolhouse.  The primary domiciliary parent or legal guardian is the proper party to enforce an award of child support pursuant to this Subsection.
E. (one) An award of kid support continues or shall exist set with respect to any unmarried kid who, whether institutionalized or not, is incapable of self-back up and requires substantial care and personal supervision because of an intellectual or physical disability that is manifested earlier the kid attains the age of majority. A disability under this Subsection shall not include substance abuse or addiction.

Maine

Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. nineteen-A, §1653(12)
Eighteen years of age, unless the kid is in secondary school, so 19 years of historic period, graduation, withdrawal or expulsion from school, whichever occurs showtime.

No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absenteeism of an agreement.

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Maryland

MD GEN PROVIS § one-401
xviii years of age. If child is enrolled in secondary school, child has right to receive support until age 19 or graduation, whichever comes beginning.

Md. Family Police force Code Ann. § 12-202
The Maryland child support guidelines provide that in determining whether the application of the guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate in a particular case, the court may consider the terms of any existing separating or property settlement agreement or court gild, including any provisions for payment of college educational expenses.

Md. Fam. Law Code Ann. § thirteen-101(b)(two); Md. Fam. Law Lawmaking Ann. § xiii-102(b)

(b) Destitute adult kid. -- "Destitute developed child" means an developed kid who:
(1) has no means of subsistence; and
(2) cannot be self-supporting, due to mental or physical infirmity.

(b) Duty to support destitute adult child. -- If a destitute developed child is in this State and has a parent who has or is able to earn sufficient ways, the parent may non neglect or pass up to provide the destitute adult child with food, shelter, care, and clothing.

Massachusetts

Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. iv, §seven(48); Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 209, §37
18 years of age. May extend to 21 if the child is living with the parent and is enrolled in an educational program.

Mass. Gen. Laws. Ch. 208, § 28; Encounter Doe five. Roe, 585 N.Eastward.2d 340 (1992)

A courtroom, in its discretion, may order support up to age 23 if a child is domiciled with a parent and principally dependent on that parent due to the child's enrollment in an education plan, excluding educational costs beyond an undergraduate degree.

See Fienberg five. Diamant, 378 Mass. 131, 389 N.E.2d 998 (1979); Come across Vaida v. Vaida, 86 Mass.App.Ct. 601 (2014)

A courtroom may guild support for an developed child who is mentally or physically disabled. If adult kid with disability reaches the historic period of 23, he/she no longer meets the statutory requirements for mail-minority kid support that allow post-minority child support up to historic period 23.

Michigan

Mich. Comp. Laws §722.52; §552.605b
18, but may order until nineteen ane/2 for completion of high schoolhouse, or beyond 19 1/2 by agreement of the parties.

No statute or case police force belongings parents to a duty to college support in the absenteeism of an agreement.

Mich. Comp. Laws §722.52
Beyond 19 one/2 by agreement of the parties.

Minnesota

Minn. Stat. §518A.26, subd.v
18 years of historic period, or until age 20 if the child is still attending secondary schoolhouse, whichever occurs later, or an individual who is incapable of self-support by reason of inability.

Minn. Stat. § 518.551 subd. 5d
Support can extend beyond this date if specifically addressed in the order and if parties had agreed to an educational trust fund for price of post-secondary education.

Minn. Stat. § 518A.26 (5)
"'Child' means an private under xviii years of age, an individual under age 20 who is nonetheless attention secondary school, or an individual who, by reason of concrete or mental status, is incapable of cocky-support."

Mississippi

Miss. Lawmaking Ann. §93-11-65(eight)(a)
21 years of age, unless child marries or joins military; child support ceases upon the age of majority.

Stokes five. Martin, 596 And then.2d 879 (Miss. 1992).
If the parties concord, support may continue beyond the age of majority. Since the age of majority is 21, back up for college expenses may be ordered upward to that historic period.

Miss. Lawmaking Ann. §93-xi-65(8)(a); Hays v. Alexander, 114 Then.3d 704 (Miss. 2013).

If the parties concord, support may continue beyond the historic period of bulk and some courts may social club this if the child is disabled.

Missouri

Mo. Rev. Stat. §452.340
18 years of age, or until graduation from secondary school or age 21, whichever occurs first.

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 452.340(five)
If the child is enrolled in an institution of higher education or vocational school total-time,the parental support obligation shall proceed until the child completes his education or until the child reaches the age of 21, whichever occurs first.

Mo. Rev. Stat. §452.340
If the child is physically or mentally incapacitated from supporting himself and insolvent and unmarried, the court may extend the parental support obligation by the child'south eighteenth altogether.

Montana

Mont. Code Ann. §xl-4-208(5) ; §twoscore-v-201(2)
18 years of historic period or upon graduation from high school, whichever is later on, but no later than 19, unless the child has a disability that causes fiscal dependency.

No duty to provide college back up.

Mont. Lawmaking Ann. §xl-4-208(6) ; Mont. Code Ann. §xl-5-201(2)
Kid is defined as a person who is mentally or physically incapacitated, if the incapacity began prior to the person'south 18th birthday.
Provisions for the support of a kid may not be terminated based solely on historic period if the child has a disability that causes the child to be financially dependent on custodial parent.
The obligation to pay child support for the individual with a inability continues until the court finds that the individual is no longer disabled or is no longer financially dependent on the custodial parent if:
(i) the decree ordering provisions for the support of a child is issued on or afterward July 1, 2019; or
(ii) the decree ordering provisions for the support of a kid is already in effect on July 1, 2019, and has not been terminated.

Nebraska

Pecker. Rev. Stat. §43-2101 ; §42-371.01
Nineteen years of historic period, emancipation, or upon wedlock, whichever occurs get-go.

Zetterman 5. Zetterman, 245 Neb. 255, 512 N.W.2d 622 (1994).
A district court in a dissolution action may not order child back up beyond the age of the bulk of a child over the objection of whatsoever parent absent a previous understanding between the parents. In this instance, the parents' prior agreement was enforced.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §43-2101
Only if parties agreed and it'southward included in the back up guild, otherwise historic period of bulk is 19.

Nevada

Nev. Rev. Stat. §129.010 , Nev. Rev. Stat. §425.300
Age of majority is xviii; or upward to a maximum age of 19, if a student is enrolled in, only has not yet completed high school.

No statute or instance law belongings parents to a duty to college back up in the absence of an agreement.

Nev. Rev. Stat. §125B.110
A parent shall support across the historic period of majority his or her child with a handicap until the kid is no longer handicapped or until the child becomes self-supporting. The handicap of the child must have occurred before the age of bulk for this duty to use.

New Hampshire

N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §461-A:14 (IV)
Until age 18 or completes high school, whichever is later; or if the child becomes married, or a fellow member of the armed services, or is emancipated pursuant to an gild of emancipation

N.H. Rev. Stat. § 461-A:21
Agreement on College Expenses. – Parents may hold to contribute to their child's college expenses or other educational expenses beyond the completion of high school as part of a stipulated decree, signed by both parents and canonical past the court. The agreed-on contribution may exist made by one or both parents. The agreement may provide for contributions to an account to relieve for college, for the use of an asset, or for payment of educational expenses as incurred. Any such agreement shall specify the amount of the contribution, a percent, or a formula to determine the amount of the contribution.

N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §461-A:fourteen(Four)
The courtroom may initiate or continue kid support across the age of 18 for children with disabilities, provided that the order does not continue support later the child reaches historic period 21.

New Bailiwick of jersey

N.J. Stat. Ann. 2A:17-56.67; Due north.J. Rev. Stat. Ann. §2A:34-23; See NJ Child Support Guidlines link Appendix Ix-A, 24 & 25.
The age of majority is 19 years quondam, unless the child is however attending high school or college or has a mental or concrete disability, non to extend across age 23.

N.J. Stat. Ann. §2A:17-56.67
Child support will terminate when the child reaches age 19 unless he or she is a student in a post-secondary education programme and is enrolled in the number of hours or courses the school considers to be full-fourth dimension omnipresence. In that case, child back up may be extended

N.J. Stat. Ann. 2A:17-56.67
Child support will terminate at historic period nineteen unless the child has a physical or mental disability, as determined by a federal or state government agency, that existed prior to the child reaching the historic period of xix and requires continued child support. In this case, custodial parents may submit a written request to go on support beyond nineteen years of age.

New Mexico

N.M. Stat. Ann. §40-iv-7(B)(three)(b)
Eighteen years of age, unless still in high school, so upward to 19 years of historic period.

No statute or case law property parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an agreement.

North.M. Stat. §40-four-7(C)
The court may social club and enforce the payment of support for the maintenance and education later high school of emancipated children of the marriage pursuant to a written understanding between the parties.

New York

N.Y. Family unit Court §413(1)a
18 years of age; child support may continue until the child reaches 21 years of age.

N.Y. Dom. Rel. Law § 240(1-b)(c )(vii); See Setford v. Cavanaugh, 175 A.D.2d 665, 572 N.Y.S.2d 591 (1991).

The courtroom may award educational expenses, such every bit for college or private school or for special enriched educational activity. A parent may non, however, exist directed to pay kid support and/or contribute toward higher education expenses for a child who is 21 years of age or older absent-minded express agreement to practice and then.

N.Y. Family Court §415; N.Y. Family Courtroom §413(one)a

Under very express circumstances if the child is handicapped or stipulated in a divorce decree. Until 21 for a mental disability.

North Carolina

Due north.C. Gen. Stat. §50-13.4
xviii years of historic period. If even so in chief or secondary school when child turns xviii, support may go on until age 20 or graduation, whichever comes first.

No statute or case police property parents to a duty to higher support in the absence of an agreement.

N.C. Gen. Stat. §l-13.8
For the purposes of custody, the rights of a person who is mentally or physically incapable of self-support upon reaching his majority shall be the same equally a minor child for then long as he remains mentally or physically incapable of self-support.

Northward Dakota

North.D. Cent. Code §14-09-08.2
18 years of age. May extend by 18 if still in high school. Support ends when the kid graduates from loftier schoolhouse or reaches 19 years of age.

N.D. Cent. Code §14-09-08.2(6) ; See Donarski v. Donarski, 581 N.E.2d 130 (N.D. 1998) (citing Newburgh 5. Arrigo, from New Jersey); Johnson five. Johnson, 527 Northward.W. second 663 (Due north.D. 1995).

Allows a courtroom to lodge support past the age of majority if the parties concur or the court deems it advisable.

N.D. Cent. Code §14-09-08.2(6)
This section does not forestall the entry of an social club for child support which continues later on the child reaches age eighteen, if the parties agree, or if the court determines the support to be advisable.

Ohio

Ohio Rev. Lawmaking Ann. §3109.01 ; Ohio Rev. Lawmaking Ann. §3119.88; Ohio Rev. Code Ann. §3119.86
18 years of age, or as long as the kid attends high school on a full-time basis or a court social club requires the duty of support to continue, unless specified in the court order.

No statute or instance police force belongings parents to a duty to higher support in the absence of an agreement.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. §3119.86
Support may continue past xviii if the child is mentally or physically disabled and is incapable of supporting or maintaining himself or herself.

Oklahoma

Okla. Stat. tit. 43, §112(E)
xviii years of historic period, or if the child is regularly attending loftier school, other means of high schoolhouse education, or an culling high school pedagogy plan as a full-time student, the child shall be entitled to support by the parents until the kid graduates or turns 20, whichever comes first.

No statute or case law belongings parents to a duty to college back up in the absenteeism of an agreement.

Okla. St. Ann. tit. 43, §112.1A
Court may order back up past majority, for an indefinite period of time, if the kid requires substantial intendance and personal supervision because of a mental or physical disability and is incapable of self-support and the disability exists, or the cause of the disability is known to be, on or before the eighteenth altogether of the child.

Oregon

Or. Rev. Stat. §109.510 ; Or. Rev. Stat. §107.108
18 years old; may continue to age 21 if the child is single and attention an educational facility such as a high school, community college, four-twelvemonth college or university.

Or. Rev. Stat. § 107.108 ; In re Marriage of Crocker, 157 Or. App. 651, 971 P.2d 469 (1998).

Authorizes a courtroom to order a parent to pay back up for a child regularly attending postal service-secondary education to age 21.

Or. Rev. Stat. § 109.010
Parents take a duty to support their children who are poor and unable to work to support themselves.

Pennsylvania

Pa. Cons. Stat. tit. 23, §4321(2) ;
18 years of age or loftier school graduation from high school, whichever occurs later, unless emancipated at an earlier historic period.

See Curtis v. Kline, 542 Pa. 249, 666 A.2d 265 (1995).

No statute or case police force property parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an understanding. Contractually based agreements for postal service-secondary educational support contained in marital separation agreements are enforceable.

Pa. Cons. Stat. tit. 23, §4321(3)
Parents may be liable for the back up of their children who are upwards to eighteen years of age or older and take a mental or physical status that prevent the child from being self-supporting.

Puerto Rico

31 Fifty.P.R.A. §971 ; 31 L.P.R.A. § 911; 31 L.P.R.A. §931; 31 L.P.R.A. §912 & §951.
21 years of age. A minor may exist emancipated prior to reaching the historic period of bulk past matrimony, judicial decree (based on orphan or self-support status), or parental consent, if child is across 18 years old.

Support across the age of majority could be ordered simply by the court if the child is a full-fourth dimension student, maintains proficient academic progress and can demonstrate economical needs to justify continuation of support.

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Rhode Island

R.I. Gen. Laws §15-5-16.ii(b)
Eighteen years of age, unless the kid is still in high schoolhouse, then for ninety days following graduation only in no instance by the child's 19th birthday.

No statute or case police force holding parents to a duty to higher support in the absence of an agreement.

R.I. Gen. Laws §15-5-16.2(b)
Court may order support past majority, if the child has a astringent concrete or mental harm and is notwithstanding living with or under the care of a parent.

Due south Carolina

Due south.C. Code Ann. §63-three-530(17)
18 years of historic period or until married, cocky-supporting or otherwise emancipated. Perhaps past eighteen if the kid is enrolled and still attention high school, not to exceed high schoolhouse graduation or the end of the schoolhouse year after the child reaches 19, whichever is later on.

Risinger five. Risinger, 273 South.C. 36, 253 S.Due east.2d 652 (1979); West v. Due west, 309 Due south.C. 28, 419 South.E.2d 804 (Ct. App. 1992).
Court may order college support. (jurisdiction of the family court is permitted in cases of children over 18 years of age where infrequent circumstances warrant it; family unit court judge may require a parent to contribute that amount of money necessary to enable a child over xviii to attend high schoolhouse and iv years of college, where in that location is evidence that: (1) the characteristics of the child indicate that he or she will do good from college; (two) the child demonstrates the power to do well, or at least brand satisfactory grades; (three) the child cannot otherwise become to school; and (iv) the parent has the fiscal ability to help pay for such an education).

Due south.C. Code Ann. §63-3-530(17)
The Courtroom has the discretion to provide for child back up by the historic period of xviii when there are concrete or mental disabilities of the child or other exceptional circumstances that warrant the continuation of kid support beyond age 18 for equally long as the physical or mental disabilities or infrequent circumstances keep.

S Dakota

Southward.D. Codified Laws Ann. §25-5-18.i
18 or until 19 years of age if total-time student in a secondary school.

No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an agreement.

Southward.D. Codification Laws Ann. 25-7-9 ;
If child is yet existence supported past one parent, there cannot be compensation by other parent unless there is an agreement. The necessary health and special needs of the child volition be considered in whether to deviate from the guidelines.

Tennessee

Tenn. Code Ann. §34-1-102
xviii years of age, unless child is notwithstanding in loftier school; then in such cases emancipation occurs when child graduates from high school or when course child is in when they reach 18 graduates.

Run into also Nash five. Mulle, 846 Due south.W.2d 803 (Tenn. 1993)(the extent to which a trust fund established during the child'southward minority for her later higher education is permitted).
No statute or instance law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an agreement.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-5-101(k)
May go on to 21 years of age if handicapped or disabled, unless severely disabled and living under the intendance of a parent and it is in the best interest of the kid for support to continue.

Texas

Tex. Family Code Ann. §101.003; Tex. Family Code Ann. §154.001
Support obligation ends at xviii years of age, matrimony or until graduation from high schoolhouse, whichever occurs later on.

No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an agreement.

Tex. Family Code Ann. §154.001
For an indefinite menses if the kid is disabled.

Utah

Utah Code Ann. §78B-12-219
Eighteen years of historic period, upon wedlock, emancipation or until normal and expected graduation from high school, whichever occurs later. Support ends if the kid becomes a member of the armed forces.

Utah Code Ann. § 15-ii-1
In divorce actions, courts may gild support to age 21.

Utah Code Ann. §78B-12-102
Defines "child," for purposes of child back up, equally a son or girl who is incapacitated from earning a living, and, if able to provide financial resource to the family, is non able to back up self past own means.

Vermont

Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 1, §173 ; Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. xv, §201
18 years of historic period; 21 years of age if kid is a regularly attending educatee of a school, college, or university, or vocational or technical training.

No statute or case law holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an understanding.

Simply if stipulated past the parties.

Virgin Islands

sixteen Five.I.C. Sec 341(g)
Xviii years of historic period. Support may be continued up to age 22 years of age if the child is enrolled and attending an accredited college or academy on a full-fourth dimension basis, pursuing a high school diploma or enrolled in a vocational program.

16 V.I.C. Sec 341(1000)
Support may be continued upwardly to age 22 years of age, if the child has been accepted to or is enrolled and attention an accredited higher or university on a total-fourth dimension basis, pursuing a high school diploma or enrolled in a vocational plan.

xvi V.I.C. Sec 341(1000)
Support may be ordered for a child of whatsoever historic period who is dependent because of a concrete or mental disability.

Virginia

Va. Lawmaking §16.1-228 ; Va. Code § twenty-threescore.3
18 years of historic period. May continue until the child turns 19 or graduations from high school, whichever occurs offset.

Va. Code § 20-124.2
The court may confirm a stipulation or agreement of the parties which extends a support obligation beyond when information technology would otherwise terminate equally provided past constabulary.

Va. Lawmaking § 20-60.three(v); Va. Code Ann. 20-124.2 (C)

May keep for a kid over the historic period of 18 who is (a) severely and permanently mentally or physically disabled, (b) unable to alive independently and support himself, and (c) residing in the home of the parent seeking or receiving kid support.

Washington

Wash. Rev. Code §26.28.010
18 years of historic period; may extend child support if a child is still in high school under certain circumstances.

Wash. Rev. Code § 26.xix.090
The court may, in its discretion and according to enumerated factors, award college support.

Wash. Rev. Code § 26.19.090
Court may extend back up in special cases or order mail-secondary back up.

West Virginia

Due west. Va. Lawmaking §48-11-103
18 years of age. May continue past age xviii if the child is unmarried, residing with a parent and a full-time student in a secondary education or vocational program making substantial progress towards a diploma.

No duty of college support imposed.

Due west. Va. Code §48-11-103
May continue by 18 if child is handicapped or disabled.

Wisconsin

Wis. Stat. §54.01(twenty); Wis. ST 767.511
xviii years of age, or upward to nineteen if the child is pursuing an accredited class of education leading to the acquisition of a high school diploma or its equivalent.

No statute or case constabulary holding parents to a duty to college support in the absence of an understanding.

N/A

Wyoming

Wyo. Stat. §fourteen-i-101 ; §14-2-204
18 years of age. May be extended to historic period 20 if the kid is attending high school or an equivalent program full-time.

No statute or case constabulary holding parents to a duty to college back up in the absenteeism of an agreement.

Wyo. Stat. §xiv-two-204(a)(i)
A parent's legal obligation for support of children continues past the historic period of bulk when the child is mentally or physically disabled and incapable of cocky-support.

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