Court Opinion

ID: 9931781
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:29:28.067961+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:28:07.853039
License: Public Domain

I concur with the majority's conclusion that the trial court did not err in refusing to increase child support payments and that it did err in failing to award attorney's fees to the mother. I also agree with the majority that the trial court erred in holding that a parent cannot be made to support an adult child where that parent has, by agreement incorporated into the trial court's decree, agreed to do so. But, I do so only because the supreme court has apparently taken the position that an equity court in a divorce action can require a parent to support an adult child if such action is based on contract. See Reynolds v. Reynolds, 274 Ala. 477, 149 So.2d 770
(1961) and Murrah v. Bailes, 255 Ala. 178, 50 So.2d 735 (1951).