tlchance05
Junior Member
Arkansas - We are paying child support according to a North Carolina divorce decree which states, "child support will end when child turns 18 years of age unless child is still in high school at that time, in which case child support will continue until that child stops attending high school, so long as the child is under twenty years of age." My step-son who now lives in MN turned 18 in February 2007 and was due to graduate in June 2007. His grades and attendance precluded him from any chance of graduating in June. Therefore, he completely dropped out of high school in March 2007. We encouraged him to at least get his GED. He started his GED and then dropped out of this program. Therefore, it has been almost three months since he dropped out of high school. Based on the way the divorce decree reads, the fact that he is 18 and quit high school we were no longer required to pay child support. Yesterday, he notified us that he may want to go back to high school next year (we are not even sure if this is possible at this point), regardless, we do not feel we should have to restart paying child support since he quit high school in March after he turned 18 in February thereby, in our oppinion at least, eliminating our legal requirement to continue with child support. Are we legally required to re-start child support if he decides and is actually able to go back to high school after formally dropping out?