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Question:

I have a twenty year old daughter who is supposed to have been attending college full time. I just found out through her transcript that she has been withdrawing from one class each of the last 3 semesters. Now she took the spring 2009 semester off. Further, she wants to take a cosmetology course while she is working full time.  I have been informed by the director of the course that it is an adult night class and considered to be part time school.

My question is:  Am I still liable to provide full child support? She lives at home with her mother, and her mother is claiming she should not be emancipated because she pays for her car insurance.

Question:

My spouse is spending her money aggressively to eliminate any cash that she may have to split in our divorce. What can I do to mitigate my obligation to pay half of her debt?

She has served me with a Notice of Dissolution of Marriage, but nothing has been filed yet. I believe she is doing this as a calculated move on her part, re-enforced by her attorney.

Question:

My wife and I are in the process of working out an amicable divorce. We are planning on going the "no fault" route.

I am being told (by a relative who is an attorney helping us prepare for the filing) that if she stays in the house, I would have to pay extra spousal support. In addition, she would not be required to refinance the house, buying me out. Is this true?

It certainly doesn't seem right that we would build equity in the house together over the years we have lived in it and, after the divorce, I would still help her build equity!

Question:

Is it legal for my fiancé’s parents and mother in law to deny him his son's phone number and visitation rights? Right now he is not allowed to call his son or to take him out alone. These are the rules of the grandparents, not of the court. There is no court ruling him to be an unfit parent or anything else for that matter. The child just lives with the grandmother in New York while the father is in Maine.