Knepton v. Knepton

In Ex parte Brewington, 445 So.2d 294, 297 (Ala.1983), the supreme court held that a parent could be obligated to provide support for “their children who continue to be disabled beyond their minority.” The supreme court based the ruling on an “expanded interpretation ... of the term ‘children’ in the Alabama child support statute,” § 30-3-1, Ala.Code 1975. Id. at 296. The supreme court expressly rejected earlier cases limiting the term “children” as used in the statute to minor children, holding that “[t]he statute .,. does not express such a limitation, and such a narrow interpretation is…