Victory lap - how to handle?

[mcdreamy]

I'm a year away, but daughter is intimating she'd like a victory lap year, between high school and university. During that year, she would work (minimum wage job of course), but it would be at the bottom of the heap position in the field that she currently wishes to chose.

I am so pro-education, I have some issues with a victory lap year, but both my current husband and my ex, have agreed this might be a good thing, for her.

I'd like some suggestions on handling the CS - off the top of my head, I'm thinking of suggesting ex pays $200, I pay $200, kid pays $200. I charge the kid rent and actually make her pay for her costs.

Or do we do no cs? There is no way the kid can make enough money to cover her hard costs in our house.

Reasonable suggestions please? I like time to think things over.

 

[standing on the sidelines]

Is your ex paying full child support or offset child support? How does he want to handle CS if she takes the year off? If he is willing to keep it as it is then why charge her rent? She seems to have a good plan and the year off will give her a chance to build up for school.

To me it seems like a good idea for her. Starts at the bottom of the field she wants to go into as a job before she makes the commitment of time and $$$ to go study in that field in university. She may decide that it isnt for her.

 

[dinkyface]

She might not have that option...

"Each year as many as 20,000 students head back for a so-called victory lap in Ontario's classrooms, which prompted the province to implement a 34-credit cap in a bid to save up to $22 million annually. The limit, part of the government's ambitious plan to save $17.7 billion over the next three years, will come into effect in 2013."

 

[Age Smies]

Why don't you help her save for school the year after, yes charge her some kind of rent but put it away for the studies. Considering the debt load of graduating students these days, it may really assist her.