Thomas B. v. Lydia D.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sweeny, J.
The issue presented is whether, by written agreement, two parents may terminate the child support obligation because of the child’s full-time employment without a simultaneous showing of the economic independence of the child. We hold they may not.
Pursuant to a stipulation of settlement entered into as part of the parties’ judgment of divorce, petitioner father was obligated to pay annual child support until the parties’ child reached the age of 21 or was otherwise “emancipated.” The stipulation defined emancipation as, inter alia, “the Child’s engaging in…
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