Posted on 03/04/2014 6:37:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An 18-year-old New Jersey honor student and cheerleader has been tossed from her parents’ Lincoln Park home, but demands that her mother and father continue to pay her private high school and impending college costs — as well as her mounting lawyer fees, according to her lawsuit.
Rachel Canning claims she’s been out of her parents’ home since her 18th birthday, Nov. 1, after her parents vowed to cut her off “from all support both financially and emotionally.”
But Sean and Elizabeth Canning say their “spoiled” college-bound daughter doesn’t live by their house rules and left the home because she didn’t like the law of the land — overseen by her father, a former Lincoln Park police chief.
The Morris Catholic High School senior and lacrosse player instead has lived at the Rockaway, N.J., home of a classmate, whose father, John Inglesino, has foot the bill for the suit.
“My parents have rationalized their actions by blaming me for not following their rules,” Rachel said in her court papers, according to The Daily Record of Morristown, N.J. “They stopped paying my high school tuition to punish the school and me and have redirected my college fund, indicating their refusal to afford me an education as a punishment.”
Canning filed suit last week and is scheduled to appear with her attorney, Tanya Helfand, at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Morristown Family Court. The teen will demand her parents pay a Morris Catholic tuition bill of $5,306 as well as $12,597 in accrued legal fees.
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She’s the kind of girl that gets married and gives her husband great head ———ache.
Who cares, she can go to public school, parents are not obligated to fund the private high school or future college or a spoiled brat.
That’s the point, isn’t it? Depending on how this court rules, future parents MAY be obligated to fund private schools and colleges.
I want to know who this friends dad is that is footing the Bill for her to sue... this whole things smells... Looks like this friends parent is paying her tuition for some reason and trying to backdoor into getting her parents to pay him back
Sorry, she’s a legal adult... her parents are no more obligated to pay her tuition than she is to cut their lawn. I really want to know who the “friends” of this girl are that are footing her tuition and her legal bills.. this whole thing wreaks. They are the ones that need to be publicly chastised and humiliated.
update: http://abcnews.go.com/US/rachel-canning-loses-suit-make-parents-pay-high/story?id=22768908
A New Jersey family court judge ruled today that Rachel Canning’s parents do not have to pay her high school tuition after she sued them to cover her schooling and living costs.
The judge delayed a ruling on whether the parents must pay the 18-year-old student’s college tuition while asking lawyers to consider whether it’s wise to “establish precedent where parents live in fear of establishing rules of the house?”
The judge also denied her request for attorney fees, although ruling that the parents should continue with weekly allowance and “child support” payments to their daughter.
The next hearing is scheduled for April 22
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