For purposes of determining whether child’s enrollment at community college to make up credits required for his high school graduation constituted enrollment in secondary school, and thus extended father’s obligation to pay child support past age of 18, statutory term “secondary school education” included high school equivalency program, as high school equivalency programs were excluded from definition of “post-secondary education” and equated with secondary school for purposes of determining entitlement to in-state college tuition.
http://www.mdcourts.gov/opinions/cosa/2012/0774s11.pdf
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