State of California, Your child just turn 18 and going to college full time can I still collect child support?

Question

Untill What age?

Do I have to get a new court order?

Answer 1

In most states, it depends on the support agreement.

Typically a parent is obligated to support only until age 18.

Answer 2

QueenLori is the ONLY one to give you a halfway correct answer.

In California, Child support must be paid until the child becomes 18, unless the child has not graduated from high school, in which case the child support continues until the child has graduated high school or becomes 19, which ever occurs first.

Presently, the law doe s not give judges the power to make a parent support a child beyond the age of 19, unless the child is physically or mentally disabled. However, the parents can agree that child support is to continue into the college years, and such an agreement will be enforced by the Family Law Court.

Since you asked can you go back to court to get a new order, I can rightfully assume you do not have such an agreement and the answer is No. The jurisdiction of the court is now over and you have no grounds on which to support any further motion to modify an order which is expired.

Answer 3

If you are still collecting child support after your child turns 18 and leaves the house you should endorse that check over to the child to help him/her w/the costs associated w/full time studies. As a parent you should have been preparing for the day when you'd no longer be collecting that money and learning ways to support yourself with out it, that money is for the child, not you and should be used accordingly!

Answer 4

yes you can as long as the child is in college you can collect until age 21

Answer 5

If your divorce paperwork is written that way, then yes. If your divorce paperwork makes no mention of it, you are out of luck and can blame your attorney for not putting that in there and also yourself for not having him/her put it in there.