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Question:

My daughter turns 18 in July and I pay child support. I just discovered that because she missed so many days of school, she will not have enough credits to graduate. Do I have to continue to pay child support if she has to take an extra year of high school because she was held back in school for simply not going enough?

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Question: My son is 18 but will not graduate high school until he is 21. My divorce papers say I pay child support until he graduates high school at the expected age of 18 or 19. 

Will I have to pay support for two more years because he didn’t graduate at 18 or 19 which our divorce papers outlined?