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.
The law of conservation of matter states that matter can be neither created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction. This means that all the atoms present before a reaction must be present after the reaction, and that the total mass of a system does not change as the result of a chemical reaction.