Does a child of the marriage have to become a university student once the marriage has ended?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Clarke v. Taylor, 2014 BCSC 49 (CanLII):
There is no automatic rule that a child is no longer a child of the marriage once a first university degree is completed. As noted by Madam Justice Levine in Neufeld v. Neufeld, 2005 BCCA 7, W.P.N. v. B.J.N. [2005] B.C.J. No. 12, at para. 30:
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