A divorcing husband has to pay towards his four children's tertiary education as his obligation does not end at them leaving school, the court rules.
A divorcing father cannot duck from his responsibilities of paying for his four children’s tertiary education simply because he agreed to foot the bill for their education, but now claimed his responsibilities ended once they left school.
The husband always paid the university fees of his daughter, who was in the second year of her studies. But after he entered into a preliminary maintenance agreement with the mother, pending their divorce, he stopped payments.
The man claimed he understood the agreement, made an order of court, to state that while at school, he was liable to foot the schooling bills of his children and that he is now off the hook.
The mother subsequently turned to the Western Cape High Court to force him to pay his daughter’s university fees. According to her, his undertaking to pay for his children’s education included their tertiary studies.
