It is a given that when a teenager turns 17 and gets a driver’s license, the parents’ insurance premiums skyrocket. A New Jersey judge has ruled in a case of first impression that child support payments may be increased to help foot the bill.
“[T]he family court, in its reasonable discretion, may increase or otherwise adjust guideline-level child support in a particular case to account for the additional cost of car insurance for a newly licensed teenage driver,” Ocean County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Jones said in Fichter v. Fichter.
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