Is a child of the marriage entitled to a university degree once the child has received his first degree?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sharma v. Sharma, 2011 BCSC 742 (CanLII):
There is no automatic rule that a child ceases to be a child of the marriage once a first university degree is completed, as stated by Levine J.A. in Neufeld v. Neufeld, 2005 BCCA 7 at para. 30: The jurisprudence supports the view that there is a wide range of factors to be considered in the determination of whether a child is a “child of the marriage” and that individual factors will be of varying importance in different cases. All of the relevant factors must be considered. There is no arbitrary cut-off point based on the number of degrees or eligibility of the student for financial assistance.
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