Girl sues parents to pay for college tuition after running away from home when they imposed a curfew

fishjie · March 6, 2014, 4:50am

Beat you to this BEWD. Let the woman hating begin! Personally, I don’t blame feminism for this, but rather the self esteem movement from back in the day that leads to this kind of entitlement. But hey she is pretty good looking, she could still become a stripper/escort and pay for her school!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/04/285887838/teen-sues-parents-claiming-they-owe-her-money-for-college

A judge held an unusual hearing in New Jersey on Tuesday: a lawsuit brought by an 18-year-old who says her parents kicked her out of their house. Rachel Canning is seeking to force her parents to give her financial support and money for college, in addition to pay for tuition at her private school.

Superior Court Family Division Judge Peter Bogaard, who heard the case in Morristown, N.J., on Tuesday afternoon, denied Canning’s requests in what’s seen as the first round of hearings in the case.

“All requests by plaintiff for emergent relief at this point are denied,” tweeted Michael Izzo of the Daily Record, which was apparently the first news outlet to report the news of the lawsuit.

The judge set a date of April 22 for a hearing to consider other issues in the case, such as Canning’s legal status, the Daily Record reports.

In discussing the case after nearly two hours of testimony, the judge cited an email from Canning to her parents in which she said, “I’m my biggest enemy … And do realize that a change has to be made,” Izzo says.

Bogaard also “noted that Rachel Canning’s behavior over the past year has been in question,” reports CBS 2 TV: “one or two school suspensions, drinking, losing her captaincy on the cheerleading squad and being kicked out of the campus ministry.”

The news station says the judge also told the Cannings that they should have tried to get help for their daughter instead of cutting her off.

Bogaard said the question of public policy must be considered, Izzo reported, as the case might set a precedent in which children can flout their parents’ rules and then demand money from them.

Court documents filed by Rachel Canning alleged that her parents abandoned her. But her lawsuit stopped short of seeking full emancipation from them – if that connection is removed, her parents would cease to have an obligation toward their daughter.

“We’re being sued by our child,” Sean Canning told CBS 2’s Christine Sloan Monday. “I’m dumbfounded. So is my wife, so are my other daughters.”

Rachel Canning, a senior at Morris Catholic High School, is on the honor roll and the cheerleading squad; she plays lacrosse and has a $20,000 scholarship, according to multiple reports. She has been accepted at several colleges and reportedly hopes to attend the University of Vermont.

Since leaving her parents’ home, Canning has been living with a friend whose father helped her sue, as The Asbury Park Press reports:

“Since the alleged “abandonment” by her parents, Rachel has been living in Rockaway Township with the family of her best friend and fellow student Jaime Inglesino, whose father is attorney and former Morris County Freeholder John Inglesino. Inglesino is funding the lawsuit and hired attorney Helfand, who included in the lawsuit a request that the parents pay their daughter’s legal fees that so far total $12,597.”

In late December, Canning’s parents’ attorney wrote a letter stating that the parents would continue to pay for Rachel’s health insurance and saying she is entitled to money from a college fund they created, reports the The Star-Ledger.

“I know Rachel is a) a good kid, b) an incredibly rebellious teen, and she’s getting some terrible information,” Sean Canning told CBS 2.

He told the TV station that his daughter left home in November. The Canning household isn’t a strict one, he said, noting that curfew is often after 11 p.m. Several local media outlets have reported that the Cannings did not approve of their daughter’s boyfriend, whom the Daily Record has identified as a fellow senior at Morris Catholic.

Tuesday afternoon, Sean and Elizabeth Canning and their daughter came to court to discuss her lawsuit against them. They sat “at opposite ends” of the same table, Fox News’ Rick Leventhal tweets. “All look miserable.”

For today’s hearing, the parents were “required to produce information about their incomes, including their 2011 and 2012 tax returns and their last three pay stubs,” reports the The Star-Ledger.

The newspaper adds that Sean Canning currently works as a business administrator for the Township of Mount Olive; Elizabeth Canning is a legal secretary.

An intense discussion of the case is underway at the Asbury Park Press, where the top-rated comment came from a woman warning Rachel Canning that she was putting her future at risk. When people learn about her past, reader Emily Ruman warned, “they will most likely put on you on their ‘she was crazy then, she is probably still crazy’ list of people that they don’t hire, date, befriend or otherwise associate with.”

Another comment reiterated a time-honored rule: “If you don’t like the rules here, move out.”

Update at 6 a.m. Wednesday: The Scholarship
There’s confusion over whether Canning’s $20,000 scholarship comes from the University of Vermont or Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., with several local and national media reports asserting each version. We’ve reworded part of this post to reflect that uncertainty.

DoctaMario · March 6, 2014, 5:08am

White people, can you PLEASE start hitting your kids again? Thank youuuuuuu…

owattjacob · March 6, 2014, 5:15am

Judge Peter Bogaard?

Court is now in session. STAND AUP!

Smoothjazz101 · March 6, 2014, 10:13pm

http://imgur.com/gallery/LQEwqcM

dab00g · March 6, 2014, 10:21pm

18 is an adult and she was kicked out

Her bad

Porn and stripping and a starbucks job are all in her future

Neesa · March 6, 2014, 10:26pm

What kills me is that… She thinks she is entitled to finish out her senior year in her morethanlikely expensive Catholic school. What, she too good for public education? :bluu:

http://i.imgur.com/ACWGUwh.png

Raz0r · March 6, 2014, 11:15pm

Her parents claim she wasn’t kicked out, she voluntarily left. The lawsuit was spurred on by the parents of one of her friends, the father of which is a lawyer and recommended another lawyer to pursue a case.

And in NJ, it’s not as clear-cut as, “she’s 18 an adult lulz.” I’d read up on the story if I were you.

RagingDemonStorm · March 6, 2014, 11:19pm

Young white women are entitled to everything

I’ve been waiting for you young boy

SF2GuileX · March 6, 2014, 11:22pm

Basically she didn’t want to play by the rules and left while expecting a free ride on the way out. Kids these days…

fishjie · March 6, 2014, 11:42pm

apparently her new bf turned her into a party whore so that’s why her parents told her to knock it off

Serpent · March 6, 2014, 11:57pm

lol this.

My dad always made it clear the second I turned 18 I would be out of the house.

Since she’s a white girl she’ll probably be okay even at a garbage college like Vermont probably “studying” a BS subject like Women’s Studies. But she probably doesn’t even need the degree and can shack up with some random guy that will put her through college. Then after she gets through college she can divorce the loser and laugh at him hah.

American men can’t keep their women in line, because American men are pussies. If you’re a pussy of course you get ruled by one.

Korbidon · March 7, 2014, 6:13am

She’s hot. She’ll be fine.

Starhammer · March 7, 2014, 8:20am

If she loses the court case, there’s always porn.

-Starhammer-

PupilOfPlato · March 7, 2014, 9:20pm

Young hot girls are the most egomaniacal self centered brats you could ever meet. Worse than 2 year olds or dictators in the vanity department.

Bitches need to be set straight with a good 'ol Ralph Kramdon "get out!"

followed by a George Jefferson door slam to the face.

That’ll teach 'em.

Pablo_the_Mex · March 7, 2014, 11:01pm

Us beautiful people will always be fine.

Biolink · March 8, 2014, 1:00am

The ratchet entitlement

Starhammer · March 8, 2014, 7:01am

the way she’s acting, I would say she is entitled to a ratchet upside the face.

-Starhammer-

orochizoolander · March 8, 2014, 7:19am

But what about us really really really ridiculously good looking people?

J-ride · March 8, 2014, 12:53pm

If that was my daughter I’d smack the SHIT out of her. Maybe even punch.

Starhammer · March 11, 2014, 6:36pm

I don’t know nuttin’ bout dat life!!

Don’t know how legit this site is, but the lolz are real.

Yeah hun. Shoulda thought about that when you started the lawsuit. We await your porn pics. One bare booty shot, and you’ll have a new “daddy” in no time.

-Starhammer-