Posted on 03/03/2014 2:33:45 PM PST by Beave Meister
A New Jersey teenager claiming that her mother and father tossed her out of their home and cut her off financially is suing them for immediate support, current private-school fees and future college tuition. The parents, meanwhile, say that daughter Rachel Canning, 18, moved out voluntarily after refusing to abide by their rules.
“We love our child and miss her. This is terrible. It’s killing me and my wife,” Rachel's father, Sean Canning, a town administrator and retired police officer, tells the Daily Record. “We have a child we want home. We’re not Draconian and now we’re getting hauled into court. She’s demanding that we pay her bills but she doesn’t want to live at home, and she’s saying, ‘I don’t want to live under your rules.’” The rules, he notes, include reconsidering her relationship with a boyfriend who may be a bad influence, being respectful, and abiding by her curfew. He and his wife, Elizabeth, who live in suburban Lincoln Park, about 25 miles outside of New York City, have kept their daughter’s car because they paid for it, says Canning, and he admits that they did stop paying Rachel's tuition at the private Morris Catholic High School. A hearing is scheduled to take place on Tuesday in the Morris County Superior Court.
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She will just sponge off of some sucker guy that will think he hit the jackpot.
The parents should pay the rest of her hs tuition. She may be 18 but she’s a senior in hs. She’s an honor student so not like she’s cutting classes
Ok ... parents should counter sue for: changing diapers, wiping her snotty nose at 5, soccer teams, birthday parties hosted, cheerleading, anything she spent money on growing up - 3 hot meals a day and roof over her head since birth ... how about pediatric visits to doctor, orthodontics ... hmmm ... the parents should be able to re-coup about $500,00 or more - plus damages for cancelled vacations and their personal time so they could raise her - I say she is entitled to nothing, plus nothing
Why should they be forced to pay private school tuition when she is behaving like a brat?
We have two teenage daughters who go to a Catholic school they like very much. Tuition is not cheap. If she insists on breaking curfew let her try out public school for a while.
Little Miss Sunshine can’t have it both ways. She can’t stomp her feet and declare her adulthood when it comes to curfew, bad boyfriends etc.. and then turn around and say, “Mommy and Daddy pay for my college”. You want to be an adult.. then be an adult. That means paying for everything!
How times have changed. When I was a young adult who no longer wanted to live at home, I worked hard in high school so that I could earn a scholarship. Then when I did, I worked a job to pay for my room and board as I studied in college. I didn’t have a car. I walked or took the bus. I had no phone, but kept a quarter in my pocket at all times. I didn’t expect anyone to give me anything that I couldn’t first earn in some fashion. I also took a loan out for the part of my tuition that wasn’t covered by my scholarship, and when I finished college, it took me ten years to pay every penny back. I never asked for, nor received, a penny from my parents, because I chose to go to college which I knew they couldn’t afford. It was not their responsibility, but it was my dream to get a degree. I was the first in my family to do so, and a couple of siblings followed suit after me, even though I was one of the youngest in our family.
This young lady can cry me a river. What I did wasn’t easy, but it was one of the most worthwhile things I’ve ever done. It set me up to work hard for what I believed in. If she doesn’t want to live by their rules...fine, but she is an adult. Her choices have consequences that she alone is responsible for.
If she isn’t ready, then she should admit this, and move back in, following their rules until she is ready to be on her own.
let’s assume she wins for the moment,
What are the odds that she spends the money on a Harvard (or similar) degree in “joint history of science and studies of women, gender and sexuality” rather than something constructive/productive/remunerative?
Zero.
She could write fascist articles for the school paper while acting as a sexual concentrator for a dorm or something?
lol
never mind....
Parental obligation stops when the child becomes an adult.
theOne granted these adults enhanced childhood by requiring their adult parents’ medical insurance policies to cover them as if they were still dependents.
Unbelievable -- surely the judge will see what's going on here.
The court should tell her new sugar daddy to pay for it all and eat his court costs.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Courts have found that men were liable to pay “palimony” to ex-girlfriends, after the relationship ended, because the woman was able to make the case that there was a “promise of support”. So, if the kid can convince the court that the parents made some promise like that, an idiot judge may find them liable.
Back when I worked in a high-end learning center, moms got the ex to pay for tutoring. It was part of the sales pitch by the aggressive manager....you can make your ex pay!
Suing a parent for education goes way too far. The parents obligation is to care for that child and support him/her getting through a public HS education.
He needs to appeal that immediately. He had a shitty attorney.
Here’s a solution. If you are dependent upon the parents for financial support, regardless of age, you are denied adult rights. No voting, no medical procedures without adult consent, no marriage, not allowed to have kids, can’t sit on a jury, can’t sign up for a credit card. If you cannot live on your own and demand that they take care of you, you cannot then exercise the rights of an adult in any other arena.
She is an adult, and they should not have to pay her living expenses or college tuition. But since she is still in high school, they may have to pay for the balance of her high school tuition.
Hmmm, I think something like that is one of the foremost appeals of ObamaCare, only instead of parents it is taxpayers and instead of college it is welfare. Did I misinterpret Pelosi's comments?
I read the rest of the article, and it looks like her parents may have set up a college fund for her. Depending upon how it was set up, they may have to give her that money, but they certainly would not have to give her anything beyond that for college.
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