State ex rel. Bivins v. Bivins

RUSSELL, Judge.

The State of Alabama filed a modification petition on behalf of Carolyn Bivins (mother), requesting post-minority educational support for Adrienne M. Bivins (child). The trial court denied the petition, and the state appeals. We reverse and remand.

The petition was filed two days before the child’s nineteenth birthday and asked that James R. Bivins III (father) be required to continue support until the child turns age twenty-one, if the child remains enrolled in school. The child is presently enrolled in a junior college and works between thirty and forty hours per week. She…