In a case that has received national attention, a New Jersey woman who is seeking to have her estranged and divorced parents pay for her college education will have to show that she remains unemancipated if she is to have her parents cover those costs, a state appeals court ruled on Friday.
In a published opinion, a three-judge Appellate Division panel said a trial court, which ordered parents Maura McGarvey and Michael Ricci to pay the 2013 tuition bill for their estranged daughter, Caitlyn, at Temple University in Philadelphia, failed to determine whether Caitlyn, who had been living with her paternal grandparents, was or was not emancipated.
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