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The only thing I think her parents need to pay for her is her high school tuition. They put her in that school, they should pay for it. And if I were them I would pay that. Looks better to the judge IMO.
As for her tuition for college HA! I paid for my college and am still paying off those loans for another 4-5 more years! I hope no judge makes her pay. If she wants to be a big girl and leave because mom and dad don't like her bf, that's HER problem, not her parents.
Rachel Canning, 18, won't get $650 weekly child support or payment of her private high school tuition from estranged parents Sean and Elizabeth Canning, a judge decided Tuesday. But a second hearing on the suit is scheduled for next month, and the Morris Catholic High School senior could still force her parents to pay up her impending college costs.
Than you for posting an update. We'll have to wait a month to find out. Even if she loses, this lawsuit was necessary in another important aspect. Her taking them to court proves she is estranged from her parents so their income won't be taken into consideration when determining her qualifying for financial aid. Financial aid offices require documentation of estrangement---police reports and such. This lawsuit meets the criteria regardless of what the judge rules next month.
If I was the college admissions department, I'd withdraw her acceptance to my university. Just trouble waiting to rear it's ugly head against any of the universities.
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I agree
Also, forevermore, her name will be associated with this event. All future employers, etc., that google her will come across this story and may have second thoughts.
I'm watching the news now and I'm so irritated that this is the FIRST breaking news story for the evening. They raised that pretentious, ungrateful shrew and honestly, I'm unsympathetic to both parties.
I'm not sure if the defect is in her upbringing versus cultural molding, but she needs to get a job and work for the cost of her education.
When I was 18, I had no one to support me. My parents were divorced and my mother had a part time job. My father was/is quite wealthy, but he did not want to provide for the cost of my education (long story). When I attended college, I took out loans and had to work part time, in addition to carrying 5-7 courses/semester. I went on to become a physician, and care for myself.
WHen stories like these pop up, I get irked and simply shake my head. That girl isn't entitled to anything. Not a single thing.
Thank goodness the case was thrown out. Love how in one picture she's smirking and in the next she's gasping... If I were her parents I'd tell her she's out of my life unless she gets on her knees and BEGS for forgiveness. And even then I wouldn't pay for her education anymore. She'd get a roof and food and that's about it.
Thank goodness the case was thrown out. Love how in one picture she's smirking and in the next she's gasping... If I were her parents I'd tell her she's out of my life unless she gets on her knees and BEGS for forgiveness. And even then I wouldn't pay for her education anymore. She'd get a roof and food and that's about it.
I just saw on the news that there's another hearing next month. But I'm not certain what for?
I just saw on the news that there's another hearing next month. But I'm not certain what for?
The first hearing denied her "emergency $650/week" emergency my butt!
The second hearing is about tuition and I'm 100% sure no judge would rule in her favor. It would set a very bad precedent.
Funny how the plaintiff lawyer is saying the parents don't care and don't reach out to their daughter, but the defendants attorney says they have been asking her daughter to come home. And love how she's been in so much trouble during the school year she was stripped of being Captain of the Cheerleaders and her lawyer says instead of punishing or reprimanding her, they should "help her." Seriously? I think an arse-whooping is all this girl needs.
With college costs they way they are right now, I don't blame her for trying. Teens these days are guaranteed to be saddled with massive student loans and debt that their parents cannot have fathomed would have happened to them. Tuition in the 60s and 70s were hardly the tune they are now, perhaps in the hundreds for some public colleges (as my former boss would brag about).
However, I don't think she's entitled to a free college tuition. She needs to learn that things don't come easy in this world.
Don't really have a dog in this fight but it's funny to me how so many people claim things are legal and illegal without looking at the law or the facts of the case. Half the people in this thread claim to know definitely how the judge is going to rule, and that is just impossible. I've read and/or been apart of too many cases where it appeared clear cut one way and the ruling went a completely different way. Heck, who thought Citizen's United would be decided how it was? Did you really think Roberts would validate Obamacare? The moral of the story is if a case makes it past initial pleadings the judge feels there is a valid legal question.
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