can a child sue his or her parent for refusing to pay for his or her higher education?

Answer 1

No. Can a parent sue their child for being an unappreciative ********?

Answer 2

A parent is generally not required to pay for college or university training for his child.

EXCEPTION: where the parent has a contractual commitment to provide such education. For instance, it is sometimes written into support agreements that a parent will pay for all or a portion of a child's education.

I recently saw a situation in which the father obligated himself to pay for half of what the tuition would be at a state university. This essentially means that even if his daughter attended a private university with higher tuition, he would be contractually obligated to pay only half of what it would be at the state university.

Answer 3

If paying for higher education was originally part of a child support agreement at the time of divorce, then the child probably could. Otherwise, no. Sadly, parents are not obligated to pay for higher education in America.

Answer 4

In the US, a person can bring a lawsuit for any reason. If the reason does not have a reasonable likelihood of being successful, the other party might bring a successful summary judgment motion. In other words, a court may dismiss it at an early part of the process. That is what is likely to happen here. The parents have no obligation to pay for higher education.
There are other reasons, however, for bringing lawsuits, or threatening lawsuits. For example, sometimes the threat of a lawsuit causes the potential defendant to pay money (usually a small amount) to the potential plaintiff in order to avoid the expense and embarrassment of being sued.
Good luck.

Answer 5

Yes, depending on the situation.
If the child is under 18, has no hope for emplyment in the area without college after looking for a full-time job and getting turned down by all applied too, and has no other place to live,
and no other source of income to pay for education such as scholarships (must prove they applied to evey available source and was turned down.), Pell Grant, student loans, etc.
Or must prove parents wouldn't furnish info for them to apply for the grant or loan.
Can go under endangering a child's welfare then.
If child is age 18 and over, then no they can't.

Answer 6

You can sue anyone for any reason, there is always a Lawyer somewhere looking to make some big bucks of a useless case. But should you sue a parent for refusing to pay for college...NO, I would never pay for any of my children (10) to go to College, One is in college, and she works to pay for it, and worked to earn scholarships, this makes her a self made person, which is far better than a person who has been given a free ride by parents or state, they tend to do far better in college, since they realize the value of there education. We do offer her free room and board, but she prefers to live on campus, and in the summer she continues to work, and lives with us then (at no charge). No one deserves a free ride, but all deserve a chance to better themselves. It's not up to others to pay your way in life, you are a better person all around if you learn to achieve things on your own, statistic show that a person who has college paid for them is more likely to not complete it, the drop out rate within the first year is 70% nation wide! the colleges make a lot of money of this statistic, so they really don't care if you finish or not, they got your money. People who pay there own way have only a 30% drop out rate, so who is taking it more serious? Few parents can afford $10,000-$15,000 a year out of there income to pay for a child to go to school, maybe your parents make more than $50,000, but the average median income in the USA in 2005 was $36,400 per household. the percentage of doctors,lawyers and bank presidents and entrepreneurs are in reality the minority by far by the blue collar workers. move to California and become a resident of that state and go to college for free, or Wisconsin, they are implementing a similar system, then you can attend college on the tax payers dime, and scream about the high taxes later on.

Answer 7

No but it is difficult for you to pay for higher education without parents help. The government take your parents income and use some half assed formula to determine how much they will contribute to your education and will give financial aid accordingly.

Answer 8

No! What the child can do is grow up a little, get a job and pay his own way through college like the rest of us had to

Answer 9

A child could sue if there was an enforceable agreement, a contract, regarding payment. The child could sue for breach of that contract.

Answer 10

No there is no right to education first and foremost, second people are generally permitted to spend there money the way they see fit. You're going to have to do what many many other people do in this country. Take out students loans. You'll be near adult age by the time you start college so you'll be fine.

Answer 11

Good heavens, why would you want to........Just like someone said earlier, are you able to pay to put them in a home so they don't lose everything. NO

Im sorry I had to add to this.

Earn the scholarship like most of us had to and thank the good lord that (most) parents loved their children enough to give them what they could while growing up. Don't take the love they gave you and turn it into a legal court matter.