311 So. 2d 769 - Todd v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “* * * * * * "As stated elsewhere in this opinion the trial judge's order giving rise to this appeal found that since the son was attending college and not employed he was entitled to support from his father, and further `in the court's opinion, is entitled to a college education at the expense of his parents.' It is certainly desirable and laudable for parents to encourage their offspring to get a college education if he or she is college material. However, there are many parents who enjoy complete domestic tranquility but who do not, either from personal choice or inability or otherwise, give their children a college education. The fact that domestic whirlwinds cause a severance of the marriage does not enhance the rights of the children nor alter the obligations of the parents. Certainly if the parents were still married and enjoying domestic harmony a suit would not lie by the child or either parent to require parental support for a college education. Neither may such be accomplished in a dissolution of marriage forum. "When the legislature, in its infinite wisdom, emancipated 18 year old children, it specifically provided that they enjoy and `suffer' the rights, privileges `and obligations' of persons 21 years of age and older. We find nothing in the act which appears to us to have intended to afford 18 year old adults any bonus rights or privileges not enjoyed by persons over 21 years of age. "In the case sub judice the harassed father testified that his son had ceased t”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Krogen v. Krogen

2. “There is nothing in the record to justify an award of alimony after death, and therefore it was error to require the husband to maintain life insurance on his life for the benefit of wife to provide support for her in the event of and after the husband's death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patrick v. Patrick

3. “This act shall not prohibit any court of competent jurisdiction from requiring support for a dependent person beyond the age of 18 years... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 323 So. 2d 592 - Baldi v. Baldi