Legg v. Legg

This case arises out of a judgment rendered in connection with a motion for contempt filed after a judgment of dissolution of marriage. The issue presented is whether, when the parties have agreed in a stipulation incorporated into the judgment of dissolution that they will share the cost of their children’s postsecondary education, including room and board, each is responsible for one half of the cost of room and board when the child lives at home with one party, rather than on the college campus.1 The trial court, Munro, J., held that the defendant was not responsible. On the basis of the…