CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Child Support
......Parental Obligation of Support
.........Adult Child
............Disabled
 9 Cards On This Topic:
  • Parent has obligation to support adult child unable to maintain himself/herself by work.
  • A disorder that does not prevent an adult child from obtaining employment is not a §3910 incapacity.
  • As a parent's obligation for adult child support runs to the child, not the other parent, it is error to order the support paid to a parent who is not directly supporting the adult child.
  • Death of parent does not abate child support action; successors properly named to continue action on behalf of adult disabled child.
  • In determining whether child has sufficient "means," court should look to whether child's assets were sufficient so as to make it unlikely that s/he will become public charge.
  • Statutory child support guidelines apply to disabled adult children.
  • Parents cannot agree to divest family law court of jurisdiction over a support order for an adult indigent child; prior order to that effect void.
  • Parents have equal obligation to support disabled adult child.
  • Support of adult disabled child being voluntarily furnished by one parent does not excuse the other parent's liability.


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