Hughes v. Hughes

The parties were granted a divorce in 1972. The respondent mother brought this action in 1980 to require the appellant father to provide child support to assist in financing the college education of the parties’ eighteen-year-old daughter. The father counterclaimed, seeking child support for two minor children who resided with him. The Family Court ordered the father to pay $300 per semester toward his daughter’s education and denied his prayer for child support. The father appeals both these rulings. We affirm.

The father first assigns as error the rejection of his plea that the matter of…