Post-Majority High School Support

IMDMA §513 specifically allows the court to award support for a child who is over the age of 18 but still attending high school. Thus, in In re Marriage of Betts, 172 Ill.App.3d 742, 526 N.E.2d 1138, 122 Ill.Dec. 599 (4th Dist. 1988), the appellate court held it appropriate for the trial court to have ordered post-majority child support for a daughter who was not physically or mentally disabled. Betts quoted In re Marriage of Taylor, 89 Ill.App.3d 278, 411 N.E.2d 950, 954, 44 Ill.Dec. 584 (1st Dist. 1980), for the proposition that there is no requirement that an emancipated child must be handicapped to receive support under §513.

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