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Over 30 years ago, the New Jersey Supreme Court determined that divorced parents could be held financially responsible for the college education of their children. In analyzing the reasonableness and level of such an obligation, the Court set forth a number of factors to be weighed by Judges. These factors include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The amount sought by a child for the cost of such college education<\/li>\n<li>The financial ability of the parent or parents to pay those costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/funding-childs-college-education-divorce.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading Funding Your Child&#8217;s College Education After Divorce\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each spring thousands of New Jersey high school seniors undergo the process of applying to colleges and universities to continue their education. The cost of college tuition, room and board and related expenses can be exorbitant. While the financial strain of funding a child\u2019s higher education to intact families is significant, it is often more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,65,93],"tags":[],"coauthors":[186],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce-family-law-insights","category-insights","category-mcglew"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Funding Your Child&#039;s College Education After Divorce &#8212; April 12, 2016 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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