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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15:21 To posters who do not understand how divorce changes a parent's commitment to cover college, it's one of many, many things divorce can change. This is truly an area that depends on the will of the parent. And yes, the willingness to cover can change over time, due to a number of things. Financial woes, remarriage, a sense of being screwed by the original financial settlement. [/quote]

15:21 here.  I get finances shifting with divorce, each side now has to pay all household expenses (rent, utilities, etc.) instead of splitting them so the resources of the family unit are diminished and I think I referenced that in my original post.  And yes, I also understand about things changing over time (job loss, etc.) but I don't group either of those within the category of things changing exclusively because of the divorce.  I mean, even if both were married a job loss would still affect their ability to pay for college so maybe in that situation one parent is unfairly attributing the willingness of the other to pay for college to the divorce rather than underlying circumstances.

Your last point is interesting and it's one I'd never considered but I see what you're saying.  That's one reason why I think everyone should have some form of a pre nupt / marital agreement so that they know the expectations of the other party with regard to alimony and property distribution.

I can also see, in the case of a higher earner, there might be an unwillingness to pay if one feels the custodial parent was wasteful or used child support money on themselves.[/quote]

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