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Background:  A growing minority of states permit child support orders to continue for several

Background:  A growing minority of states permit child support orders to continue for several years after a ‘child’ graduates from high school and attains his/her majority.  The purpose of such orders is to provide the ‘adult child’ with some level of  parental / (financial) support while attending college.

Instructions:  Review pages 264 -272 of the course text.  Two or three complete paragraphs for each part of the question should be sufficient.  

Prompt 1:  List and summarize the legal and societal arguments in favor of continuing an order of support for an ‘adult child’ pursuing an undergraduate college degree. (10 points)
Prompt 2:  List and summarize the legal and societal arguments against continuing an order of support for an ‘adult child’ pursuing an undergraduate college degree. (10 points) 

Please cite sources from the text only: Marlene A. Pontrelli and J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, Family Law in Focus, Wolters-Kluwer (2017) 

And please remeber to include pg numbers!