Child Support and College Expenses

Answer:

Child support in New York State includes several components. There’s basic child support, which is a percentage of income, and then there is mandatory add-on support. Mandatory add-on support includes health insurance premiums, the cost of unreimbursed medical and dental expenses, and daycare expenses. College expenses are not mandatory add-ons. Most judges look at the parties’ totaling income, resources available to each party, savings that they may have, and the child’s ability to obtain financing for school, and then make a determination as to how much college support should be paid by either party. That can and does, in many cases, result in a reduction of the basic child support, simply because there may not be enough money to pay all of those expenses at once.