In Re Marriage of Kohring

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• concluding that “the state has a legitimate interest in securing higher education opportunities for children from broken homes”
• holding that “[d]espite daughter’s failure to comply with the statute [by failing to provide father with school transcript], father is not relieved of future payments for daughter’s educational expenses”
• noting that where government action does not create a suspect classification nor infringe upon a fundamental right, it will survive judicial scrutiny if the classification is rationally related to a legitimate government interest
• holding there is no suspect class of “unmarried, divorced, or legally separated persons”
• rejecting claim that it violated equal protection clause and parent’s fundamental right to decide whether to support child to require divorced father to pay for college expenses
• provisions of Section 452.340.5 contemplate proof of eligibility for parental support on term-by-term or semester-by-semester basis

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