An 18-year-old girl from New Jersey recently filed a lawsuit against her parents claiming she was "abandoned" and still needs them to pay her private high school and future college tuition. Rachel Canning moved in with a friend's family and swears that her parents cut her off both financially and emotionally as soon as she turned 18. Anyone else smell a spoiled brat?
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Canning claims that her parents kicked her out of their home once she turned 18. But her parents claim she left on her own because she didn't want to abide by their rules. According to them, their daughter refused to do her chores, keep her curfew and give back a few belongings she had taken from her sister.
"We have a child we want home. We're not draconian and now we're getting hauled into court," Canning's father, Sean Canning, a retired Lincoln Park Police Officer, told the Daily Record. "She's demanding that we pay her bills but she doesn't want to live at home and she's saying, 'I don't want to live under your rules.' "
Rachel has been living with a best friend's family since moving out. Apparently her friend's relatives are the ones funding her lawsuit too. The 18-year-old claims that her parents have stopped paying her Morris Catholic High school tuition since she left their home and reports claim they owe the school $5,306 in tuition. The honor student and high school cheerleader who has already received college acceptance letters along with a $20,000 scholarship to a private New York college, also wants them to pay for her college costs.
School administrators were even backing the bratty teen up. "Rachel has excellent grades and will not be removed from the school for this non-payment; however her parents do have a contractual obligation to pay," Morris Catholic president Michael St. Pierre wrote in a certification to the court.
Fortunately, for Canning's parents a judge decided they don't have to give their daughter child support or pay her private high school tuition. But the bratty teen isn't giving up she's still fighting to get her folks to cover her college costs. The second hearing is scheduled for this coming Tuesday.
This is absolutely ridiculous. It's pretty obvious this teen ran away from home because she didn't want to live under her parents' rule and now she's expecting them to still finance her education? I'm sorry, but you can't have your cake and eat it too. If this brat is adult enough to move out of her parents' home, then she should be adult enough to apply for financial aid and get a part-time job to pay for her schooling y punto!
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