See generally Laura W. Morgan, Child Support Guidelines: Interpretation and Application Â§ 4.05 (Supp. 1999). Many states rewrote their emancipation statutes in the 1970s and 1980s to provide that a parent is released from a child support obligation when the child is 19 or graduates from high school. [See Table below.] Emancipation may also come before the age or event stated in the above Table.
The Law of Conservation of Mass (or Matter) in a chemical reaction can be stated thus: In a chemical reaction, matter is neither created nor destroyed. It was discovered by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94) [15K GIF] about 1785.
Many consider 2008 the 200th anniversary of atomic theory, John Daltonâs momentous theory of the nature of matter. Dalton (1766â1844) proposed that all matter in the universe is made of indestructible, unchangeable atomsâeach type characterized by a constant massâthat undergo chemical reactions by joining with and separating from each other.