EX PARTE BAYLISS

88-616.

550 So.2d 986 (1989)

Ex parte Cherry R. BAYLISS. (Re Cherry R. BAYLISS v. John Martin BAYLISS).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied July 14, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank M. Bainbridge of Porterfield, Scholl, Bainbridge, Mims & Harper, Birmingham, for petitioner.

Stephen R. Arnold of Durwood & Arnold, Birmingham, for respondent.


HOUSTON, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to address the following issue: In Alabama, does a trial court have jurisdiction to require parents to provide post-minority support for college education to children of a marriage that has been terminated by divorce?

The trial court does have that jurisdiction. In a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or a modification of a divorce judgment, a trial court may award sums of money out of the property and...

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