Can anyone tell me what principle of LAW is being applied in this case? I thought parental financial obligations ceased when a child became a legal adult. If a parent cannot tell an adult child what to do, how can an adult child tell a parent what to do?
Steve - you haven't been divorced, have you? No. If you had, you wouldn't find this case out of the ordinary at all. In fact, it sounds to me as though they were pretty lenient on the good Doctor. After all, he gets to pay his wife to live in the style she was accustomed to while married to him, plus he gets to pay for his daughter to enjoy his profession.
Had he been down here in the States, he'd be working a second job under the table just to pay rent in some $hithole since the ex and her new boyfriend got the house, and his child support would come to nearly 95% of his income.
Law? What Court cares about the Law? What are you, some kind of romantic idealist?