7 states extend support beyond age 18 or high school. Of the 7, only one goes beyond 21. That is Massachusetts, and only if the child is still in college.

Most do not... more than that, the huge majority (86%) of states do not extend support requirements beyond high school. Parents in the 43 states wich do NOT consider college to be a time to obligate either parent to pay for, if they have such an agreement between them, they can usually get the court to enforce it if it's part of the decree that they agreed to.

It's not an issue of asking the poorer party to pay the majority of the expenses, but rather an issue of making sure teh CP and the children have incentive to make certain the child maintains a good enough relationship with the NCP so that if the NCP earns enough money to fund college, they will have incentive to do so... (and lots of parents don't earn enough to fund college even if they stay together, so what makes people think that the money magically appears when they split?)...

I still can't understand why people think they have the right to force payments for college after a split when they've not saved a dime towards that expense before the split? Do they think that life suddenly becomes CHEAPER when the same amount of salary is now supporting two separate households rather than one?