Great job Laz, now this is a Spider-man and/or My Little Pony thread.
(Either is better than the insanity that is our judicial system.)
Posted on 11/14/2014 9:39:38 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
New Jersey parents ordered to pay estranged adult daughter's college tuition Michael Ricci and Maura McGarvey said their daughter, 21-year-old Caitlyn Ricci, hasn't spoken to them since she voluntarily moved out in 2013. Shortly after she left home she sued for college tuition — and a judge demanded Thursday her parents pay $16,000 of her Temple University tuition. BY MEG WAGNER
Two New Jersey parents will have to foot the bill for their adult daughter’s college tuition ― even though she hasn’t spoken to them in two years, they claimed.
Temple University junior Caitlyn Ricci sued her estranged parents for tuition money in 2013. On Thursday, a Camden County judge ordered the divorced couple to cough up $16,000 every year the 21-year-old is enrolled in classes.
Caitlyn Ricci’s grandparents paid for the lawyer she used to sue their own son, WPVI reported. They said Ricci’s unsupportive parents ― Michael Ricci and Maura McGarvey ― kicked her out of the family home two years ago.
The divorced couple said they never turned their back on their daughter: Instead, she left her mother’s home, refusing to accept house rules like chores and a curfew, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
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This IS ridiculous. I wonder if the judge has any upper teenagers of his own. If the teeners won’t stay at home where their parents know what they’re up to, and at least contribute to the chores, then they don’t deserve to get college funds.
Judicial tyranny.
Why doesn't the batty old grandmother pay?
I want a pony. Pay for it or I sue.
This is routine with divorced fathers.
I, too, begged for an easy bake oven. Now that my daughters wish for the same thing I tell them what my Mom told me!
Great job Laz, now this is a Spider-man and/or My Little Pony thread.
(Either is better than the insanity that is our judicial system.)
I agree that the parents shouldn't be forced to pay her tuition.
But, I just explained this on another thread: Here in NJ, when parents divorce, they are required to pay their children's college tuition.
For the record, I don't agree with the law. I didn't write the law. I'm just explaining that this ruling is very common here.
The only thing unusual about this case is that the daughter is the one bringing her parents to court. (Usually one parent brings the other to court.)
The article does not touch on the issue of the parents ABILITY to pay. How much DEBT can the court impose on the parents if they don’t have the cash (and most parents wouldn’t have that much cash) to pay for the tuition?
True. A co-worker was upset once when her ex-husband didn’t make the last payment for child support...the kid was 22 years old?!??! Normally the support would have ended at 18, but the court extended it, if the kid went to college.
The divorce court can dictate just about anything.
Pretty much spot on.
Dang.... I sure hope my son doesn’t see this. I mean, I AM paying for his college (only ONE more semester!)... but, at least now.... he has to pretend to like me for it.
This is a completely insane ruling. This judge needs to be impeached.
This is the comment that got me.
“How would you have a relationship with your parents if they don’t want to contribute to college?” asked Angela Ricci, Caitlyn’s grandmother.”
I’ve met some of these Italian grandmothers, you leave thinking Rod Serling is going to step out of the next alley. Their logic is so convoluted it leaves you spinning. (Don’t bother - I AM Italian - some of them are wonderful beyond belief, and some of them are just crazy insane. We all know it. But most all of them can cook.)
My guess (and hope) is that this girl will fall victim to the mother’s curse, and when she grows up (which may be never) she will have a child EXACTLY LIKE HER, which everyone in an Italian family will talk about the justice of it FOREVER. (”Your cousin Caitlin, when you were a little girl...and I say, what goes around, comes around!!!”)
A communists liberal insane judge.
All anybody could have is contempt of that court ruling.
I’m not sure how they are getting around the adult part. I read in one article that she brought this suit right before the parents were going to bring suit to have the daughter declared “emancipated” from them. I have no idea why they needed to do that.
“What happens if the parents flat out refuse too pay? A lien on the house, wage garnishment?”
A felony conviction. Loss of the right to vote. Loss of employment. Garnishment of wages. A total destruction of your life.
If it was my grandmother, she would’ve said “screw you.” But while she was alive, she was my favorite person in the world. And she spoiled me.
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