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Court order from 2006 states CS ends at 18! " 9-18-2009"

Child no longer in HS and is working full-time! Called the DOR yesterday to find out what is going on? They informed me CS is till 21!!!!! 9-18-2012!

I think I am going to lose my mind. How do they just change this without going to court? I told them about the court papers from 2006 and also from 1996 that states 18 years old! They told me that those COURT papers don't matter???? I don't have a court order that says 21.

So when he is 21 will they change it to 23.

I feel your pain...but i think it only is true if the child stays at home with the CP AND continues to go to school

Regretfully, state law overrides your divorce decree. Unless the child is self-supporting, CS usually goes to 21 in MA. And if they go to school at least 1/2 time, then it does go to 23. They even force the parents to pick up some or all of the college expenses!

You need an attorney. If she has a really good job (doubtful, but possibly at this age), some can be emancipated and CS ends.

No divorce, I have never been married. We were together for a very short time. They have lived in NH since 1998. He never made it out of 9th grade, so i don't think collage is a issue. I receive SSI and he works full time. He actually makes more money than I do. My girlfriends daughter turned 18 in Aug. she got a paper from the DOR that says CS services are now terminated. Although she never pressed the issue. Her daughter is a senior in high school. She was divorced in 2000.

You need to go to Court and request to have the CS terminated. DOR does not have a saying on how much and for how long you have to pay CS only the Courts. My husband,s "child" got kicked out of College last year. He went back to court and requested to have the CS stop in accordance with the agreement. The Ex and her lawyer tried to play "hard ball" at first but they released that they were going to loose so an agreement was reached to terminated the CS and my husband took the DOR right there in the Court House. CS stop within 2 weeks.