Kerr v. Kerr

Littlejohn, Justice:

Respondent, Melanie S. Kerr, now more than eighteen years of age, brought this action seeking to require her father, George W. Kerr, to pay for her college educational expenses. By a prior Order of the Family Court, the father was required to pay a monthly amount as child support until she became eighteen years old. At the time this action was instituted, she was no longer receiving support payments from her father.

The daughter enrolled as a student in August of 1979, at Coastal Carolina. After one full semester of college, she filed this action.

The father, in answering…