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*any plans the parents may have made for the child's post-secondary schooling while they were still together.
In general, the courts will allow an adult child to benefit from child support for one program of post-secondary study —- one degree or one diploma — so long as the child is enrolled full-time. Where one or both parents have a very high income incomes and had always expected, during their relationshipwhile they were together, that the child would take an advanced degree, child support can be payable for more than one degree programof study.
Many post-secondary institutions consider that 60% of a full course load is “full-time” and the courts usually go along with thisthat approach.
===Statutory provisions===
The primary sections of the ''[[Divorce Act]]'' dealing with child support are these:
*s. section 2: definitions*s. section 4: jurisdiction the court's authority to make child support orders (child support is a kind of corollary relief)*s. section 5: jurisdiction the court's authority to change orders*ssection 15. 15(1): child support*ssection 15. 15(3): child support has priority over spousal support*s. section 17: variation proceedingsapplying to change an order
==The ''Family Law Act''==