Court Orders Divorced Dad to Pay 50% of $225k Cost for Estranged Daughter to Attend Cornell Law School; Dad Had Offered to Pay for Rutgers By Paul Caron National Law Journal: Dad on the Hook For Half Daughters Cornell Law Tuition, by Karen Sloan: A father who’d agreed to shoulder half the cost of his daughter’s legal education—before she got into Cornell Law School, which costs $225,000 to attend—found no relief from a New Jersey court late last month. A two-judge appellate panel of the New Jersey Superior Court ruled that James Livingston’s divorce settlement obliges him to pay approximately $112,500 to help his daughter attend Cornell. Livingston argued that circumstances including his estrangement from his daughter and her decision to attend an expensive private law school rather than a cheaper public school should relieve him of any obligation to help foot the bill. Judges Joseph Yannotti and Victor Ashrafi were unconvinced, and in an unpublished opinion on Feb. 20 upheld a lower court decision that Livingston must pay. ... Livingston declined to pay a portion of her costs when asked, but offered to contribute $7,500 a year if the daughter went to Rutgers School of Law instead and lived at home. He complained that his daughter had not consulted him in her law school choice.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:15:49 +0000
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