And I also had a friend whose daughter joined the Navy immediately out of high school and had to pay support for her for over a year until the judge authorized a stop in payments..........with no reimbursement.
This is why it needs to be specifically spelled out in the divorce decree when the child support ends -- age 18, finishing high school, dropping out of school -- otherwise the state will decide for you.
One thing that has become obvious to me over the last 15 years, is that family courts are completely stacked against the male in divorce cases. Glad I didn’t have to learn that by experience, but just reading the news here at FR and elsewhere.