A county child welfare agency may be required to help support a former foster child who is now attending college, the Superior Court has ruled.
The case, one family law expert said, could force the state Supreme Court to revisit some fundamental issues. Among those issues the definition of a dependent child in the Pennsylvania Juvenile Act, as well as the state’s obligation to support that child after their 18th birthday.
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