Posted on 10/12/2005 5:46:25 AM PDT by Calpernia
Moral Absolutes Ping?
The suit against the mother may not be dropped. She still may resubmit.
It would be a lot easier for the parents to do their jobs if the "friends with basements" would not enable this type of behavior.
So if this kid wins. I suppose law school is the next logical step.
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Yeah, often the young prostituted and exploited by lawyers end up wishing to become lawyer pimps themselves later on......it seems to be what the lawyers are supporting there... so long they get the money and keep her in school at others' expense, if she's smart enough they'll keep her. However I have a feeling she's going to be dumped and all these are scheme excuses and "benefits of doubt" easy arguments for a liberal crony judge to accept.
An eighteen year old woman is not a child!
Did you happen to read the article? There are no children involved in this as all parties have reached the age of 18 and one of them is making a claim against both parents (dismissed against the mother).
Please tell me a single state that forces the parents in an intact home to provide financially for their adult children.
Please provide me with a single state that forces an intact family to pay for the educational expenses of their adult children.
If a parent wants to pay for secondary education and has the means to do so they have the right to decide if and what type of support to provide.
For those parents who do not want to pay for their adult childrens college expenses or do not have the means to do so, there are no laws that force the parents, under penalty of imprisonment/seizure of tax returns and/or assets or any form of punitive measures if the parents do not shell out money to their adult children.
I'm not completely sure... but something like you have tell the state that the kid is an out of control juvenile and that they need to be in a group home or something. I've only had a very third hand, vague report of this stuff. However, the deal is that as a parent, when they get to 16, you are completely responsible for anything they do, whether it be criminal or semi-criminal or just rude, and you have absolutely zero way to control their behavior (but you had some modicum of control up until that age), but unless you've forseen this before they were age 14 and gotten the state involved in supervision of the kid, you are hosed because you have NO ability for those couple years to say boo to them, and you are nevertheless responsible for everything they do.
. Is it too much to ask parents who bring children into the world to be responsible for them?
NY has forced a single parent to provide educational expenses as well as support for a "child" attending college including child support to the custodial parent while the child is in school.
I've been trying to find a cite for it but have been not been able to find the exact case - I remember reading a court decision our of NY that forced the father of a 16 year old to provide support to her after the "child" had left her mothers home and received emancipation from the court. I believe it was in 1986 or right around there.
It seems todays kids want to enjoy the benefits of adulthood, yet not the responsibilities of it. Seen it in my own family.
Wahhhhhhhhh! Life is so haaaaaaaard. I have to wooooooooork while I go to schooooooooool.
Cry me a river. Talk to the millions who have come before you and worked their way through college. No sympathy here, girlie.
Oh PUH-LEEZ! Cry me a river! You want money for that stuff, get a job. I'm 15, I've gotten summer jobs. Geez, what a spoiled brat.
"I'm 18, but I still need support," she said. "I'm going to college. I don't have time to be working full-time. It's hard for me."
Life is hard. Deal with it. You can very well get a full-time job. Even a part-time job. Cut out the parties and the too-frequent social outings and the shopping that I'm sure you're doing right now.
We've got a saying at my house: "You need something? There's nothing wrong with your legs, go get it yourself!"
Her parents raised her. Even if they are forced to support her, there's nothing stopping them from writing her out of their will. I'd figure, that WAS their inheritance.
THIS is that odd category about being between the ages of 18-21 that was mentioned in the article!
Notice has it wasn't explained too well in that article also!
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>>> and she said her mother was too strict, setting an early curfew and denying her money for restaurants and fashionable clothes. >>>
Oh the humanity!!!
My husband has a daughter (lives with her mother) in NY so I've spent many days studying the laws of the state when it comes to support/maintenance. I knew I'd seen that before.
Absolutely ridiculous IMO that an adult can force another adult to financially support them, as far as I know even in marriage a spouse can not force another to support them - though it is grounds for divorce.
Thanks for the explanation. It actually has some logic.
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