Beiter v. Beiter

OPINION OF THE COURT

Bernard F. McCaffrey, J.

Does the plaintiff husband have the obligation to support his handicapped child, whose chronological age is 21 years, but whose intellectual and emotional age is five years?

The plaintiff and defendant were married on July 23, 1955 and produced five issue of the marriage, all of whom are over the age of 21 or emancipated. The child, Debra, 21 years of age, is physically and mentally handicapped, a victim of down’s syndrome.

*955It is plaintiffs position that his obligation to support Debra ceased upon her 21st birthday and, accordingly, that the marital…