Posted on 11/13/2014 10:21:52 AM PST by 11th_VA
CAMDEN COUNTY — The divorced parents of a 21-year-old woman have been ordered to contribute $16,000 a year toward their estranged daughter's college tuition, according to a report on 6ABC.com.
Neither Michael Ricci nor Maura McGarvey have seen their daughter Caitlyn Ricci in two years except in court, the report said. Caitlyn Ricci moved out of her mother's house and in with her paternal grandparents.
Caitlyn Ricci sued her parents in the spring just as they were preparing to ask a judge to declare her emancipated from them, the report said. Her grandparents are paying for her lawyer's fees.
A judge cited Newburgh v. Arrigo, 88 N.J. 529 (1982). In that landmark case, the state Supreme Court ruled divorced parents are responsible for providing for their child's college education.
Caitlyn Ricci's parents told the television station they are appealing the ruling and won't foot the bill for out-of-state tuition at Temple University.
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I’d move..................
Yeah, but her attorney probably put a lien on the house ...
Lease it out...................
I am pretty certain, that had I pulled this. My face would have ended up on a milk carton.
This is not the America I grew up in.
doesn't parental responsibility end with "adulthood" at 18 ? - by this measure the parents can be held liable for any criminal acts at college
Thanks to a VERY contentious divorce, I rented for about 12 years afterward. I had “nothing” to take. And As an IT contractor, I changed jobs often enough to be not very garnishable, had they tried. Not that it would have been necessary unless something like this was tried.
How, on the one hand, can this girl say she is legally emancipated,and on the other hand,expect support for college from someone from whom legal family ties have been cut??
Divorce injects the government into your family’s affairs. It is a VERY evil institution. Suddenly the decision whether or not to pay for your children’s education is no longer yours. Seriously.
I'd offer to pay for that. No more.
She never asked to be emancipated. The parents were in the process of asking a judge to declare her emancipated from them.
A judge, turning to a New Jersey legal precedent known as 'Newburgh' that says divorced parents may be required to contribute to their children's education, no matter their age. The judge ruled in Caitlyn's case her parents have to pay $16,000 this year. "The law in New Jersey is so clear. It is cut and dry. The law says parents are supposed to contribute to their children's post-secondary expenses," said Rochester.
This is bullshit.
So many thoughts cross my mind about this unconstitutional idiocy.
But the one that sticks most often is
Are NON-divorced parents then required to pay for their ‘adult’ children’s college educations?
And this predates 0bamacare’s ‘you have to pay for your 25 year old ‘child’s 0banmacare insurance’. by two decades.
If taken to the U.S. Supreme Court would Roberts re-write it as a ‘tax’, not tuition?
L.I.B.
burn it...Have the local cellar-savers come and put it out.
Meh. Just another reason I would never live in, nor support, NJ.
And there are LOTS of reasons.
Not necessarily. Hubby was ordered to pay child support ‘as long as they were in school’ or some age like 25 whichever came first. We paid for a year after she quit going to school simply because we had to ‘have proof’, She was 19 at the time and hadn’t been in school for almost a year. Did we get any back? Of course not.
burn it...Have the local cellar-savers come and put it out.
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