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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]

This happened to my DH when he went to college. His parents filed right as he began his freshman year and his dad suddenly refused to contribute anything to his undergrad or grad degree. Meanwhile, his parents paid 100% of his older sister's (she's 2yrs older) tuition and living expenses for both undergrad and grad. She finished with no debt, DH has a lot and it has caused huge resentment issues, esp since she's always telling him he "should have made better life choices". His father is remarried and has a 2nd, much younger family (his kids are younger than our kid) and DH has almost no relationship with him. DH asked him once why he helped older sister with college and not DH, his father said that DH's mother took his pension and received support, so she should be the one to help DH out, not him. DH still had 2 siblings at home and his mom couldn't afford to help much.

In my divorce, college expenses are not discussed. But then, XH doesn't even pay child support like he's supposed to, so I knew upfront that he wasn't going to agree or be able to help with DS's school costs. You can't get blood out of a stone and it wasn't worth the fight to me to bring it up.

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