Kerrie Crawford/Custodial Parent
by Kerrie Crawford
I was recently informed by my local Child support office that my divorce decree is written to say that "when any child turns 18 then all support stops". I am completely at a loss as to how something like this can be true. My oldest daughter did turn 18 on Feb 22nd but will not be graduating from high school until June 1st, meanwhile my youngest daughter is 13 yrs old and according the my local office and because of the way my original decree is worded then all support now stops and I'm left to raise my 13 yr old all by myself. How is this possible? She is still a legal minor and will be for the next 5 years. I can not determine if it was a typo that my attorney did not catch or if perhaps my exhusbands attorney knew exactly what she was doing and she managed to get away with it. Either way I need some help in finding out how to enforce child support payments until my youngest graduates from high school, otherwise I will be providing for her financially for a full 5 years and I do not feel like spending my money to take things back to court would be the best decision since from the looks of your website standard support is until yr 18 or when they graduate, which ever comes last.
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