Jones v. Jones

This appeal presents the question whether a father who is under a legal obligation to provide for his children’s support until their twenty-first birthday may be required to pay for his oldest child’s college expenses. In my view the requirement constitutes a legitimate exercise of the trial court’s discretion and, therefore, I join in the court’s affirmance.

The parties were divorced in Louisiana on March 1, 1972. Pursuant to the judgment in that proceeding, appellant was to pay $500 per month as support for the parties’ three children. His annual income at that time was $32,000, but when…