Does a child of the Respondent have to continue to pay child support payments after high school?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ladniak v. Mitchell, 2008 CanLII 43048 (ON SC):
With regard to the Respondent’s payment to the children post High School, the court in Law v. Law, (1986) 2 RFL (3d) 458 per Fleury J., allowed that an adult child who has terminated the relationship with a non-custodial paying-parent for no good cause loses his or her status as a child of the marriage.
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