Legal Question in Family Law in New Jersey
Child Support and College Tuition
As the non-custodial, joint custody parent of two children, I am paying $1200 a month for child support, 35% of private school tuition for grade school and high school.
The eldest daughter is now in her second year at a private college on the west coast. For her freshman year I continued to pay child support to her mother, paid 40% of tuition, room and board. For her sophomore year she and I, with her mother, met and built a budget that she thought would cover her apartment, tuition, transportation, and fees. Her mother and I split the tuition and I am paying my daughter $1400 per month for your ''room and board'' her mother is paying $1600. In addition to this, there have always been bills that my ex-wife forwards that include parties, sports equipment. The latest is an $18,000 bill for my daughter's ''first apartment'' furnishings, as well as her mother's travel to help her get settled, the rental car, and her hotel stay.
Beyond the child support, Tuition, ''room and board'' am I obligated to even look at this ''bill.'' Do I need to continue to pay child support for the college age child as well as room and board?
3 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Child Support and College Tuition
This is amazing. Just mails you a bill for $18,000?
Do you not have a very good divorce attorney helping you? Please, get one immediately.
The level of support is a complex calculation; it is never possible to predict with certainty what a Judge will order.
And if you have already reached a written settlement on these issues, you will have to show strong reasons to change that agreement, such as significant changes in your income, her income, the child's student status.
Please get an attorney working for you.
I suspect that you have one already, and are not happy with the answers that you are getting.
Get one that you trust and can work with.
Re: Child Support and College Tuition
Just wanted to second what Mr. Davies said. With that amount of money on the table, its time to pick up the phone and call an attorney.
My intitial consultations are always free, so call me at 732/247/3340 to discuss your case.
Re: Child Support and College Tuition
Since you are support her in college there should be no child support except for those months when she is at home. The total sum for those three or four months should be divided by 52 and that should be your weekly child support.
Call me if you like.
Gary Moore, Esquire
Hackensack, New Jersey
www.garymooreattorneyatlaw.com
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