Maintenance and University

Bossyboots

As there is no fundamental requirement on parents to continue to support their offspring financially once they become adults, I don't really see under what law a claim can be made to the Court. Most of my son's friends have paid their own way through uni and although my son lived at home rent free, he has had to fund everything else himself.

On the supposition that an absent parent can be ordered to pay maintenance for their offspring while at Uni, this paves the way for all uni students to apply for maintenance from their parents. In this situation, I can see no difference between single parent households and homes where a couple are parenting.

Helen_from_yorkshire

Bossyboots, you supported your son thru Uni by him living at home rent free. Theoretically, if you were a single parent, do you not think the absent parent should also provide support your son or should the support be only provided by the parent with whom the son/daughter resides!

Bossyboots

Helen_from_yorkshire wrote:

Bossyboots, you supported your son thru Uni by him living at home rent free. Theoretically, if you were a single parent, do you not think the absent parent should also provide support your son or should the support be only provided by the parent with whom the son/daughter resides!

I absolutely agree that the absent parent should be helping out with support through Uni, I just can't unravel on what basis a Court could make an order, particularly without opening the flood gates for all uni students to claim.

Wouldn't it be lovely if absent parents did the decent thing without causing all this angst. After all, your relationship with him might be over but his son will always be his son.