What Expenses Can Be Paid with Ma'aser? Tuition, Rent, Mortgage & More

Can the following be considered a tithe (maaser):
1. Son's cheider tuition
2. Son's yeshiva gdola tuition
3. Paying for daughter's seminary
4. Paying for daughter's professional training (grade 13-14)
5. Paying rent for a married daughter whose husband learns full time?
6. Paying mortgage for a married daughter whose husband learns full time?

Thank you for your question.

1-4;

One may not use ma'aser money for expenses that he is anyway obligated to pay. Therefore, since one is obligated to educate his children, one may not use ma'aser money to cover the tuition expenses of his sons or daughters until they reach the age of bar or bas mitzvah. 

Those who are lenient and use ma'aser money to pay the tuition for their son in yeshivah ketanah or yeshivah gedolah and daughters seminary or for professional training have halachic authorities upon whom they can rely.

(One may, however, use ma'aser money to pay the tuition of other people's children whose parents are in financial need.)

5–6;

It is permitted to use ma'aser money to cover such expenses.

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