Edwards v. Harris

Ness, Justice.

This is a domestic action in which respondent wife sought an order requiring the appellant husband to finance a college education for the parties’ nineteen year old son. The family court ordered the husband to pay $500 per month for the son’s education expenses retroactive to January, 1979 (the date this action was commenced) and continuing until the son’s graduation. The husband asserts the family court erred in ordering him to pay the adult son’s educational expenses as the son does not seek his father’s assistance. We agree and reverse.

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