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Helping Your Child With College Costs

With spring right around the corner and summer to follow soon after, school-aged children are beginning to look forward to a long break. For many high school seniors, it is also a time to start making preparations for college or other types of post-high school education. Of course, this also means figuring out a way to pay for it. If you are the parent ofContinue reading

Educational Expenses Begin Before Enrollment in College

Throughout the current presidential election campaign, at least one candidate has prominently discussed making a government-funded college education available to each and every citizen in the country. While the importance of a solid education cannot be overstated, the continually rising costs of college are of tremendous concern to most American families. Whether or not the next president will actually be able to bring such aContinue reading

New Law Places Limits on Support for College Expenses

If you are currently paying child support pursuant to a court order, you probably expect that your obligations will be complete when your child turns 18 and/or graduates high school. While such an expectation is certainly reasonable, and even accurate in most cases, the state of Illinois may require you to continue providing support beyond age 18 for the purposes of assisting with educational expenses.Continue reading

Child Support and College Expenses

If you pay child support in Illinois, you are probably looking forward to the day that your child turns 18 or graduates from high school. Most likely, you recognize the need for your support obligation, but once your child is no longer a minor high school student, there certainly other things you could do with the money. Before making any plans for long-term investments orContinue reading