Carpenter v. Carpenter

This case presents only one question: Where a divorce decree provides (in accordance with an agreement between the parties) for child-support payments for “minor” male child (or children) and subsequent statute reduces the age of majority of males from 21 to 18 years, which age is applicable in construing the word “minor”?

Mr. Carpenter, the divorced husband, appealed from the order of the circuit court of Du Page County, denying his post-decree petition requesting termination of his child-support obligation for his son, Richard, who attained the age of 18 years on June 13, 1971, and the…