Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California

I THINK this is debt law, I don't know what else it might be for.

I wanted to know, if it is legal for a college to raise the tuition and make you pay it AFTER you have already payed. I knew they were intending to raise it, as they announced it to all students the previous semester, but when I signed up and payed, they had not done so yet. Now I owe more because they raised the prices.


Asked on 9/09/09, 11:36 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert F. Cohen Law Office of Robert F. Cohen

They do whatever they do, if they can get away with it. It sounds like elementary contract law. They offer education for a certain tuition price, you pay it. That's the offer and acceptance. I would argue -- as you do -- that it can't be raised for the period for which you paid, unless your acceptance also incorporated the anticipated increase in tuition.

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Answered on 9/09/09, 4:45 pm


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