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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In NYS the divorce decree is almost always superceded by the state especially if it is perceived as being in the best interest of the mom...eerrrr I mean “child.” Goes to 21 mandatory for mommy payments, errr I mean “child support”
I know a stepmom in NYC. The divorce decree said “ends at 18” Nope! The “child” is now 19 and hoping to make it into showbiz makeup artistry (pipe dream encouraged by the biomom) Mommy payments continue to fund said “child” until 21 or “child” graduates 4 year college, whichever comes LAST. Said “child” is leisurely taking froo froo courses and switching majors like nobody’s business whilst posting vids on youtube.
In NYS they take the most aggregious part of state law and combine it with the most aggregious part of the divorce decree. The formulation is what will stick biodad to the wall the most. And THAT is what the judge rules in favor of.
AMEN!
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