Education of Children
In General
This section and 750 ILCS 5/513 do not mandate that divorced parents must provide their children of majority age with funds for education in cases; however, it is certainly a legitimate legislative purpose for the legislature to furnish a means for providing that they do so after they have been divorced. Kujawinski v. Kujawinski
College Expenses
Where testimony at hearing established that room and bored for daughter’s first year of college was $1,170, a trial court in the exercise of its equitable powers was entitled to impart an ambulatory character to its decree, and because defendant was already aware of that obligation for the first year of college and during the remainder of daughter’s college career, reference could be made to the room and board contract in effect for that particular year, and the trial court’s failure to specify a dollar amount for the daughter’s room and board while at college was not error. Flatley v. Flatley
There is little merit in a rule which requires as a matter of law expenditure by a child of divorced parents of his or her own funds in obtaining a college education; such a decision is better left to the wisdom and discretion of the trial court after due consideration of respective net worth, income, and other responsibilities of the parents and of the child. Flately v. Flatley
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