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Oh and FWIW, I don't think the girl should get the car. Why should she? She didn't buy it and I doubt it is in her name.
I "give" my kids a room in my house while they are there. Just because I "give" them a place to stay in my property doesn't mean they own the room and the girl more than likely doesn't own the car, her parents do. That one is really ridiculous.
Yeah, the car is probably just a demand coming from a spoiled brat. Depending on the way the college fund is set up, she might be entitled to it, but probably isn't.
I also doubt that parents who would send their kid to private school and set up and contribute to a college fund for them would kick them out of the house while still in high school. That's just illogical.
So lets discuss law, and right and wrong. they're different in this case
In MANY states-parents are responsible for their children up to the age of 21 if they are attending school. By law its VERY possible these parents need to pay for her last term at high school.
If you GIVE someone a car-it doesn't matter if your name is on the title. Really. You can argue "the cars mine-her name isn't on the title!" But when the judge says "did you give it to her? Was it a gift?" You're doomed.
Basically you have the great intersection of a lawyer, a kid who is now an adult-but is still a kid in high school, and parents that want to control the kid-who is now an adult.
My guess-the parents are going to lose. The lawyers going to get richer, and someday the kid will grow up. But all of its a pretty bad situation.
A GOOD parent would let the 18 year old grow up some-no curfew, no designating who they date. Those aren't rules for a household, they are rules for control-which kids need-but losing those is what turns kids into adults.
A GOOD kid would work around the crazy parents by keeping their curfew and other stupid rules, and work on finding work to move out with.
A GOOD lawyer-whose kid is apparently involved as the boyfriend.....would advise the kid to find work, and stand on her own, and that the car and bills aren't worth the familial dispute long term. This is not that sort of lawyer.
Because all sides have failed, a judge gets to rule on the law of it. And in many states the parents would lose.
And who's fighting "free birth control"? Attorneys?
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