My wife and myself are separated and have been for15 years, we have 2 children over the age of 30. I am currently on disability and have been for 10 years. I have been paying back shild support since 1988. My current back child support is 17,000. Legally should I have to pay back child support when my kids are over the age of 21?
No, the age of majority in New York is 21, regardless of school attendance. Child support will never continue past the child's 21st birthday unless they have a severe handicap.
Marriage discontinues the obligation.
your child attends community college when will support stop
None. Since the "child" is 18 and an adult the parent no longer needs to pay child support. You may wish to help your child while in college, but it is not mandatory.
No, child support ends at age 18 or graduates from high school, but not further than age 19.
While elementary school is mandatory, high school is not. Unless the support order specifically states that the child needs to be attending high school in order for support to be paid, the answer is "NO".
The terms of the current support agreement dictate when financial support of a biological or legally adopted child should terminate. The legal age of majority for the state is 18. But, in some cases the support order will override that age and order the non custodial parent to continue payment until the child reaches a specified age or finishes (within reason) his or her education.
Only if written into the order. See links below
not unless it is back support...you have to motion the court to have it stopped
It depends on how the CS orders are written - if they are written to include support while the child attends college, then you pay until you hit the cut off. If college was not stipulated in the orders - you need to pay until the child finishes High School and turns 18.
At the age of 18 a person has all of the rights of an adult with the possible exception of the ability to purchase and drink alcohol or rent a car. If the parent is paying child support this could also end that responsibility with the exception being if the child attends college it may be required that the parent continue financial support.
Pennsylvania does not currently have that law.
Only as a provision of the order. see link
Most times the agreement is that the child will be supported through college. If they turn 18 and do not continue with school, then child support ends.