Court Opinion

ID: 9524336
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:51:53.718345+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:09:36.000093
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Danhof, C.J.
(dissenting). I respectfully dissent from the majority’s conclusion that a circuit court has the power to order child support beyond a child’s eighteenth birthday until he or she graduates from high school.
In Price v Price, 51 Mich App 656; 215 NW2d 756 (1974), rev’d on other grounds 395 Mich 6; 232 NW2d 630 (1975), this Court found that the statute which gave circuit courts jurisdiction to order child support payments, MCL 552.17a; MSA 25.97(1), had to be read in conjunction with the Age of Majority Act, MCL 722.51 et seq.; MSA 25.244(51) et seq. The Price Court concluded that all support must cease at age eighteen regardless of exceptional circumstances. Numerous panels of this Court have followed Price’s reasoning and concluded that a circuit court has no power to order child support beyond the eighteen-year age of majority. See Felcoski v Felcoski, 159 Mich App 762; 407 NW2d 11 (1987), and cases cited therein.
I would follow this line of cases and reverse.