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- From: yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich)
- Subject: college money info
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.201208.14199@ll.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 20:12:08 GMT
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- More pertinant info regarding college expense and
- the courts attitudes.
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- (I am president of the XXXXXXXXX Council for Children`s Rights and
- a "professional" member of the XXXXXXXXX Child Support Advisory
- Commission.)
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- I have read comments from internet discussing the College child
- support issue.
- Unfortunately, I cannot post directly, but thought I ought to take
- this opportunity to send e-mail.
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- The legal literature abounds with efforts to overturn educational
- child support, made from about every angle one can think of on
- constitutional grounds.
- The most recent in XXXXXXXXX was Neudecker vs Neudecker 566 N.E. 2d 557
- and 577 N.E. 2d 960, which was taken to the XXXXXXXXX Supreme Court.
- It lost at the trial level, Appeals level and Supreme Court level.
- Last I heard Neudecker was considering the U.S. Supreme Court, although
- he must have spent at about twice the cost of college fees in legal
- fees to date. (guestimate ~ $30,000 +)
- (If my memory serves me correctly he only has one daughter.)
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- The problem with all attempts so far, which have basically hinged
- on comparing the duties of married parents with divorced/never married
- parents using equal protection or due process arguments, is that the
- courts have always side-stepped by claiming that married parents and
- single parents are different classes of people and thus equal
- protection and due process only apply in making sure that the people
- within each class are treated in the same way. People in different
- classes do not have to be treated the same.
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- I have also seen arguments not using the comparison of married
- and single/divorce parents, but comparing the action of the State
- towards foster children and those of single/divorced parent. Again
- the courts have ruled that these are different classes of Children/
- adults.
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- I have the Neudecker briefs and several other relevant briefs,
- so if you ever do decide to proceed, contact me for further info.
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- The only way around the issue in XXXXXXXXX we have decided is to
- set up a set of college support guidelines, which approximates what
- married parents actually do in real life. These are now pending
- ratification by the Supreme Court of XXXXXXXXX, and basically curb
- the power of the trial court judges to levy excessive awards.
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- Alan Yasutovich
- "inquiring (and nosey) minds WANT TO KNOW!!!"
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