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.
Dalton based his theory on two laws: the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant composition. The law of conservation of mass says that matter is not created or destroyed in a closed system. That means if we have a chemical reaction, the amount of each element must be the same in the starting materials and the products. We use the law of conservation of mass every time we balance equations!