you get what you put up with... and a LOT more of it!!!
Posted on 03/13/2014 2:58:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The 18-year-old high school senior has finally reunited with her family. The Lincoln Park teen had tried suing her parents after they refused to put up with her wayward lifestyle. The Cannings are now asking for privacy.
Rachel Canning’s going to her room.
The New Jersey teen who tried to force her parents to pay her bills has finally returned home, her parents’ lawyer announced.
Although her lawsuit hasn't officially been withdrawn, the 18-year-old honor student has “reunited with her parents and siblings,” attorney Angelo Sarno said in a statement.
Sarno said that the notoriety surrounding the suit created a "reality TV" situation that deeply damaged the family and has negatively affected Rachel's siblings. The Cannings are now asking for privacy while they patch things up.
"They're not athletes, they 're not actors. They didn't ask for any of this," Sarno said during a Wednesday press conference, according to the Daily Record. "Everyone should be happy today. This is a happy situation."
Parents Sean and Elizabeth Canning reportedly welcomed the prodigal daughter back with open arms. As far as the parents are concerned, "it's ancient history, it's done."
“Her return home is not contingent on any financial and/or other considerations,” Sarno said.
He wouldn't comment on why the lawsuit hasn't been pulled, saying only that the case was "over on a different level, not legal."
Rachel had been living with a best friend in Rockaway Township for more than four months after moving out of her parents Sean and Elizabeth Canning's Lincoln Park home. With financial help from that best friend's dad, former Morris County Freeholder John Inglesino, Canning hauled her parents to court after they stopped supporting her lifestyle.
A New Jersey judge refused to grant Rachel’s request for emergency funds from her parents last week. He scheduled an April court date to consider the overarching question of whether the Cannings are obligated to financially support their adult daughter.
Rachel's downhill descent began after a tumultuous stretch during which her parents separated and reconciled. The mom and dad eventually said they'd had enough of their daughter’s wild behavior and refusal to follow simple house rules — such as keeping curfew, doing a few chores and being respectful. She would often drink alcohol on weeknights, her parents said, and didn’t want to break up with a boyfriend whom they believed was a bad influence.
Like many teenagers before her, Rachel turned a deaf ear to her parents’ advice. But she took it one step further by moving out on Oct. 30, two days before she turned 18. Her parents say she left the house voluntarily, telling her mom and dad that she was an adult and could do whatever she wanted.
But Rachel said in her lawsuit that her parents were abusive, contributed to an eating disorder she developed and pushed her to get a basketball scholarship. The teen wanted her parents to continue footing the bill for private school tuition at Morris Catholic High. She also wanted them to pay $650 in child support every week, expense her future college tuition and reimburse all the legal fees she’s racked up.
The Cannings said they were supportive of their daughter and tried to help her through the eating disorder. They also claimed that the family she'd moved in with was acting irresponsibly. Sean Canning accused John Inglesino of giving Rachel her first taste of alcohol years ago.
"Rachel came home bragging," Sean said in a statement. The Inglesinos had "enabled this situation to an absurd level."
Inglesino said he was supporting Rachel's legal campaign because the teen is a "terrific, extremely bright young lady" who was committed to her future, Fox reports.
State Superior Court Judge Peter Bogaard sounded skeptical of some of the claims in the lawsuit, saying it could lead to teens "thumbing their noses" at their parents, leaving home and then asking for financial support.
"Are we going to open the gates for 12-year-olds to sue for an Xbox? For 13-year-olds to sue for an iPhone?" he asked. "We should be mindful of a potentially slippery slope."
Hmm. Well, I think this is the wrong approach, but... they're the parents.
It’s sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.
- Jack Handy
Big shot Attorney faltered when Family said he giving her Alcohol! Contributing charge not good for Lawyers!
He had to wash hands of her!
“she left the house voluntarily, telling her mom and dad that she was an adult and could do whatever she wanted”
Yea, some adult. Sues her parents to make them support her. I also blame the “friend’s” father for financing the lawsuit.
How soon before she starts attacking her parents again, whining and throwing temper tantrums when she is asked to help around the house.
And notice she hasn’t dropped the lawsuit.
Maybe they put things in persepctive and now they're just grateful they're not the parents of the Duke porn star.
CALLING DR. PHIL!
She went back to drum up a new approach to a lawsuit like maybe accusing the father of touching her or something I don’t think we have heard the last of this spoiled little brat.
Yes?
This is the voice of your conscience baby ... uh, I just want to check one thing out with you ... you don't mind, do ya?
What?
Suzy Creamcheese, honey, what's got into ya?
Open arms while there’s still a law suit? I don’t think so. Just wait until they ask her to take a dirty glass to the kitchen or they find boyfriend hiding under her bed. Dad better make sure all the guns are stored over at someone else’s house just in case she goes bonkers or boyfriend shows up at 2 AM like the incident in Houston. The parents need to counter sue her and bf’s legal eagle daddy. If I were the judge, I’d be slapping someone very hard for wasting the court’s time and the taxpayers’ dollars.
Any idiot who marries that brat deserves what he gets.
I would really like to get a look at this boy friend of hers. It sounds as though this whole incident was pushed by him.
[anyone hopes that lawyer gets stuck with the legal bill he financed?]
I say, leave her alone.
Leave the family alone.
She made a mistake. Let it be.
Let the family work out their issues in their own way.
I wish them the best.
This is simple - my house, my money, my rules. Don’t like those conditions, well sweetie there are people your age serving in military - call a recruiter. See ya later sweetie, write after you finish boot camp, love you.
you get what you put up with... and a LOT more of it!!!
Inglesino said he was supporting Rachel’s legal campaign because the teen is a “terrific, extremely bright young lady” who was committed to her future, Fox reports.
Yea sure that’s something people will believe, yea I’m in the clear now nothing fishy going on here, yea that will work.
Friend's daddy getting her drink when she was 16 (now 18-2=16) then trys to benefit financially from the situation. That's just plain nasty!
My question: How much did the friend's dad/lawyer/pervert make out of this deal?
drink = drunk
So far all of you FReepers are missing the main reason this young lady is having such a difficult time getting people to adjust to her.
She, like Justin Bieber and so many others, are chronic victims of THE disease of many children and young adults today.
They need the collective understanding of all of us FReepers until they can conquer this terrible disease.
You see, these young people are afflicted with chronic, advanced stage, Affluenzia.
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