Does Arizona Family Law Require a Parent to Pay for a Child's College Education?

Answer: Normally not. Unless a parent agrees to pay for a child's college education and formally obligates him/herself to do so, a parent is not so required. In other words, there is no Arizona family law requiring a parent to pay for his or her child's college education.

However, state laws on this subject vary and it is possible that Arizona could enforce a court order for a parent to pay for college costs entered in another state's family court. This could happen because the parent ordered to pay moved to Arizona and the divorce decree was domesticated in Arizona (meaning the divorce decree was officially transferred to Arizona for purposes of enforcement in our family courts).

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