# Kent v. Kent

> Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama · August 30, 1991 · 587 So. 2d 409

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9935093

## Case

- **Full name:** Joe Amos Kent v. Donna Jo Kent.
- **Court:** Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
- **Decided:** August 30, 1991
- **Citations:** 587 So. 2d 409; 1991 WL 165859
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Robertson
- **Judges:** Robertson, Russell
- **Cited by:** 32 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9935093

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- reversing the judgment and remanding the case for the trial court to set a reasonable time limitation on the obligation to pay postminority educational support, to require that the child maintain at least a "C" average, and to require that the child be enrolled as a full-time …
- holding that an award of postminority educational support must include reasonable limitations on the award to prevent undue hardship on the paying parents
- reversing and remanding for the trial court to limit the support to a reasonable period, require the child to maintain at least a "C" average, and require that the child be enrolled as a full-time student
- holding trial court should set reasonable time limits for collegiate child support, and require full-time status and "C" average from child

## Opinion text

I concur in the reversal of this case; however, I would reverse on the basis that the facts here do not meet the standards set out in Bayliss. Also, as Justice Almon wrote in a "concurring in the result" opinion in Ex parte Barnard , 581 So.2d 489 , 489 (Ala. 1991), concerning the problems with the Bayliss decision that
"[o]ther inherent problems include the questions of how good a student a child has to be in order to be entitled to support under Bayliss; whether a child should be awarded support to attend a trade or technical school; whether such support can be awarded for post-graduate or professional studies; and at what age the parent's obligation terminates."
This seems to be one of those cases.

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