Who pays for college if your parents get a divorce?

Answer 1

Even though parents get a divorce they each can pay their 1/2 of their child(rens) college. Many students have to put themselves through college, so it may be possible you may have to find work and go to college too. It depends on how financially secure the parents(s) is. Children should never think that it's their parents responsibility alone to put them through college. Work never hurt anyone. In the state of Pennsylvania, over the age of 18 (and graduated from high school) you are considered an adult. Child support ends (unless there are special circumstances) and neither parent is "responsible" to pay for your schooling. Parents are not responsible for higher education. You yourself as an adult are supposed to take care of it. Many parents do help and pay for all of it, but in many cases the parents cant help at all. After you are 18 your education is your responsibility. In some cases depending upon the financial status of both parents, the divorce decree in conjunction with the child support order will stipulate if a parent is responsible for helping or paying for higher education, special needs which pertains to a child with a disability and other such issues. If there are no such terms included in divorce terms, neither parent is obligated to pay college expenses. However, the age of majority in Alabama and Nebraska is 19, and in Mississippi and Pennsylvania it is 21, parent(s) can be legally required to financially support their children at an acceptable level until such ages are reached or until a court rules otherwise.