How long will I have to pay child support?
In most circumstances, you must pay child support until your
child reaches the age of 21. The age of majority is 18 for custody, visitation,
and other purposes, but remains 21 for purposes of paying child support. Unless
there’s some kind of agreement otherwise, parents have no duty to support an
adult child.
Your duty of child support is not absolute, however. It may
be suspended or terminated if a child older than 16 becomes emancipated by
living apart from both parents without a need for foster care, by becoming
financially self-supporting, or by marriage or entry into military service.
Even in these circumstances, your duty to pay child support does not stop
automatically. You will need to ask the same court that made your child support
order to allow you to stop making payments because of your child’s
emancipation.
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