College Tuition: A Binding Contract? With the skyrocketing costs of a college education, both at state institutions and elite private colleges and universities, the division of cost responsibilities between parents and students is becoming increasingly important and in some cases controversial. However, nowhere has the issue been more heated than in a recent case resolved by a Connecticut court. In this case, the plaintiff – a twenty-year-old student – ​​sued the defendant (her father) for failure to pay her final year of university fees, despite an explicit contract in which she had declared that she would assume all responsibility for the his college. This later contract underlined an earlier legally binding agreement under which. Again, as highlighted above, the offer in this particular context consisted of the provision of tuition and a number of other expenses associated with the daughter. Acceptance occurs when the second party to the contract accepts the offer. In this particular case, it could be argued that acceptance occurred at one of many points in the process. We suggest that acceptance occurred when the student enrolled at Southern Connecticut State University and accepted tuition payments from her father during her first three years of school. Consideration is a third important concept in contract law. In general, consideration refers to what one party gives to another in exchange for any benefits they may receive. In other words, it is what the parties exchange and the consideration affects each party's usefulness in performing their part of the contract (Lau & Johnson, although in many cases agreements with minors are regularly considered invalid, the obligations in divorce agreements are regularly confirmed. Therefore, it could be argued that even if the secondary contract was invalid (due to the age of the daughter), the primary contract (in the legally binding divorce agreement) was valid and clearly needed to be be applied across a wide range of family issues and dynamics affected this case Given that the disagreement ultimately ended up in court, one might assume that there was a degree of underlying litigation following the divorce and contract laws generally seek to eliminate emotions from business relationships, it is unrealistic in the real world to expect contracts between individuals with thoughts and feelings not to have some degree of involvement