This is a crime. There should be some expectation from the Court that the ex-spouse develop a career and become self sufficient. The child is one thing, the ex-spouse is another.
She was in the process of preparing another appeal to the court but she wasn’t very hopeful. She had supported him during part of their marriage (which was actually not even very long) because he was going to school. And this was the rationale of the judge, that if she supported him then, she should continue to support him later. He simply said he’d decided not to work after he graduated, and that was that.
Amazing.
texas has post-divorce maintenance under very limited circumstances, for no more than 3 years. Encourages the ex to get job training.