Scenario:
Child graduates HS in June 2009 (age 18 yrs 3 mos old) with no plans to continue post-secondary but gets a summer job and saves some $$$. Moves out of custodial parents house in Sept 2009 into a rental with "friends" and planning to work.
Spends from Sept '09 until approx. May '11 living on their own, paying their own way. Moves back in with one parent in May'11 & continues to work.
After 2 yrs of no CS being paid and child of the marriage "independent", child decides to go back to school out of town in Sept '11.
1st year all expenses paid between bursaries, RESP's and student loans. Child now going into 2nd year ... only student loans available as all other avenues exhausted.
Given that the "child" is now 21 1/2 yrs old, working part time making $18/hr .. does either parent have a "legal" obligation to support (either via CS or via just paying kids' way)? The child resides year round in the city where they study ... neither parent needs to provide a "residence" for them as they only come to "visit" a couple times a year for a few days.
For the record, both parents do "contribute" to things like groceries or throwing the child a couple hundred bucks here and there and/or whenever child asks and says they are short on paying their bills.
Child graduates HS in June 2009 (age 18 yrs 3 mos old) with no plans to continue post-secondary but gets a summer job and saves some $$$. Moves out of custodial parents house in Sept 2009 into a rental with "friends" and planning to work.
Spends from Sept '09 until approx. May '11 living on their own, paying their own way. Moves back in with one parent in May'11 & continues to work.
After 2 yrs of no CS being paid and child of the marriage "independent", child decides to go back to school out of town in Sept '11.
1st year all expenses paid between bursaries, RESP's and student loans. Child now going into 2nd year ... only student loans available as all other avenues exhausted.
Given that the "child" is now 21 1/2 yrs old, working part time making $18/hr .. does either parent have a "legal" obligation to support (either via CS or via just paying kids' way)? The child resides year round in the city where they study ... neither parent needs to provide a "residence" for them as they only come to "visit" a couple times a year for a few days.
For the record, both parents do "contribute" to things like groceries or throwing the child a couple hundred bucks here and there and/or whenever child asks and says they are short on paying their bills.
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