Posted on 11/16/2014 9:18:33 AM PST by Rusty0604
Alternate headline: “America discovers new reason why no one should live in New Jersey.” If you’re feeling deja vu right now, there’s a reason: The case of Caitlyn Ricci is bizarrely similar to the case of Rachel Canning ... after Canning moved out of the family home and sued mom and dad for child support...
The Ricci case is similar except that Ricci’s even older than Canning was. Rachel was 18; Caitlyn is 21, an adult legally any way you slice it. And yet, under Jersey court precedent, mom and dad may need to fork over a cool 16 large annually for her tuition at Temple even though, to hear them tell it, she hasn’t said a word to them outside of court in two years. (Her parents asked her to at least attend a school in New Jersey so that the tuition burden would be lighter but she insisted on going out of state.) ...Ricci now lives with her grandparents, who are fully behind her and who are even paying for the lawyer who’s suing her parents.
One important footnote here: An issue in the Canning case under Jersey law was whether Rachel had been legally emancipated. If so, if she was “beyond the control of the parents,” then she’s an adult for legal purposes and no one’s under any obligation to her anymore. It so happens that Caitlyn Ricci’s parents were in the process last year of suing to have her declared legally emancipated; once Caitlyn found out that was in the works, she turned around and slapped them with the tuition lawsuit. Tell me, though, legal eagles, why do you even need an emancipation ruling in the case of a 21-year-old? Doesn’t Caitlyn reaching the age of legal adulthood constitute de facto emancipation? I don’t get it.
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If this wasn’t a high-taxed welfare state, they probably wouldn’t mind paying. Of course I bet the costs would be much, much lower.
No One is Entitled to Inheritance! No One is Entitled to College Tuition! Period!
I heard that New Jersey is a very litigious state. This is not very surprising.
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