CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Child Support
......Amount
.........Need for Support (Factors)
............Education or Special Needs
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Additional child support in excess of presumed correct support may be ordered for costs related to the educational or other special needs of the children (discretionary "add-on").

Parents have equal obligation to support child.

Court may make order for education of child.

Order that father pay for son, who had special medical needs, but not daughter, who did not, to attend private school affirmed; private school OK where appropriate to parent's income.

Consideration of costs of attending a private university appropriate in making child support order.