Smith v. Smith

I disagree with the Court’s decision to quash the writ in this matter.

Harold Smith (“the father”) and Cynthia Smith (“the mother”) were divorced in 2006. Their daughter; born in 1994, turned 19 in January 2013. Eight months earlier, on May 1, 2012, the mother filed a petition in the Montgomery Circuit Court to require the father to pay postminority educational support for the daughter’s college expenses. On September 18, 2012, the trial court held a hearing on the mother’s petition and apportioned the daughter’s college expenses between the parents. The judge then asked: “Who’s going to do…