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Originally posted by KLPDaisy
"The reason the court and legislation have begun expanding this obligation on parents is that underlying most child-support laws is an assumption that a child should not suffer unduly from the divorce," says Mary Kay Kisthardt, a professor at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law and executive editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. "In other words, the child should be able to maintain the same standard of living he or she would otherwise have had."
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I think that's really what this is about. This is to assure the kids don't get screwed by whatever dispute the parents might be having. Anyone who's read Prozac Nation will remember her talking about her father refusing to fill out insurance forms that would have gotten her therapy paid for through his insurance - and he was doing it to hold it over her head and her mother's.
Everybody is getting hung up on whether PARENTS in general should pay their kids' Greek expenses, and that's not at all what the article was concerning.
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