WEST CALDWELL ESSEX COUNTY NEW JERSEY DIVORCE COLLEGE EXPENSES LAWYER

This is an appeal from the New Jersey divorce judge's order concerning the parents' obligations to pay for their daughter's college expenses. The original order required the parents to share equally the children's college costs, which was generated by their daughter's decision to attend an out-of-state private school, instead of a college in New Jersey. The father is a high school graduate who had worked as a machinist and now claims his financial position had deteriorated since the divorce. The mother asserts that the father is voluntarily under-employed. Further, she contends that, with financial aid, the tuition at the private school would be reduced to less than the New Jersey colleges. The judge kept the 50-50 ratio in place, but capped the father's liability at $10,000 per year, and the appellate panel affirms, finding plaintiff's arguments on appeal to be without merit.    Morales v. Morales, New Jersey App. Div., April 9, 2008