Krogen v. Krogen
Decision Date | 21 October 1975 |
Docket Number | No. 74--1374,74--1374 |
Citation | 320 So.2d 483 |
Parties | James S. KROGEN, Appellant, v. Jean V. KROGEN, Appellee. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Richard H. W. Maloy and Richard J. Burton, Coral Gables, Helen Tanos Hope, Miami, for appellant.
Sinclair, Louis & Siegel, Miami, for appellee.
Before BARKDULL, C.J., and HENDRY and NATHAN, JJ.
By this appeal, the appellant contests several portions of a final judgment dissolving his marriage.
We find no merit to any of his contentions relating to custody, lump sum alimony, awarding of country club membership, etc. Milander v. Milander, Fla.App.1968, 208 So.2d 876; Goldblatt v. Goldblatt, Fla.App.1973, 277 So.2d 34; Maroun v. Maroun, Fla.App.1973, 277 So.2d 572; Ebaugh v. Ebaugh, Fla.App.1973, 282 So.2d 14; Anderson v. Anderson, Fla.App.1974, 289 So.2d 463; Linares v. Linares, Fla.App.1974, 292 So.2d 63; Todd v. Todd, Fla.App.1975, 311, So.2d 769.
We do find that the support for the children should have ceased at the age of eighteen and, therefore, the award of support for the daughter who is eighteen should be removed and the support for the two minor children should cease when they reach the age of eighteen. These children being otherwise competent, we hold that support ceases upon reaching the age of majority. Perla v. Perla, Fla.1952, 58 So.2d 689; Fincham v. Levin, Fla.App.1963, 155 So.2d 883; White v. White, Fla.App.1974, 296 So.2d 619; French v. French, Fla.App.1974, 303 So.2d 668; Warren v. Warren, Fla.App.1974, 306 So.2d 197; Robertson v. Robertson, Fla.App.1975, 312 So.2d 246; Kowalski v. Kowalski, Fla.App.1975, 315 So.2d 497. We are particularly impressed by the language used by Judge Boyer in White v. White, supra, wherein the following is found:
'(3) As stated elsewhere in this opinion the trial judge's order giving rise to this appeal found that since the son was attending college and not employed he was entitled to support from his father, and further 'in the court's opinion, is entitled to a college education at the expense of his parents.' It is certainly desirable and laudable for parents to encourage their offspring to get a college education If he or she is college material. However there are many parents who enjoy complete domestic tranquility but who do not, either from personal choice or inability or otherwise, give their children a college education. The fact that domestic whirlwinds cause a severance of the marriage does not enhance the rights of the children nor alter the obligations of the parents. Certainly if the parents were still married and enjoying domestic harmony a suit would not lie by the child or either parent to require parental support for a college education.
Neither may such be accomplished in a dissolution of marriage forum.
'When the legislature, in its infinite wisdom, emancipated 18 year old children, it specifically provided that they enjoy and 'suffer' the rights, privileges 'and obligations' of persons 21 years of age and older. We find nothing in the act which appears to us to have intended to afford 18 year old adults any bonus rights or privileges not enjoyed by persons over 21 years of age.
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