Legal Question in Family Law in California

Re: the age of 18 or 19, if a full time student

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You must continue to pay child support if:

1. Your daughter is not yet eighteen.

2. Your daughter is between eighteen and nineteen but is still attending high school and living with a parent.

If neither of the above is true then then your child supoort obligation is over pursuant to your judgment.

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Re: the age of 18 or 19, if a full time student

IF YOUR DAUGHTER IS STILL A FULL TIME STUDENT IN HIGH SCHOOL AT THE TIME SHE TURNS 18 CHILD SUPPORT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL SHE IS NO LONGER A FULL TIME STUDENT OR SHE TURNS 19, WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST. MOST KIDS TURN 18 DURING THEIR SENIOR YEAR AND CHILD SUPPORT CONTINUES UNTIL THEY GRADUATE. GOOD LUCK, PAT MCCRARY

Reply: the age of 18 or 19, if a full time student

In California, child support terminates when a child turns 18, unless that child on the 18th birthday is still a full time high school student residing with a parent. If the child is still a full time high school student residing with a parent on the 18th birthday, then child support extends to age 19 or graduation from high school, whichever first occurs.

Good luck to you!

Brian Levy, Esq.

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