High school senior sues parents to pay for college
| Morristown, N.J.
聽A northern New Jersey honor student is suing her parents for financial support and to force them to pay for her college.
A judge in Morristown has scheduled a hearing Tuesday in the lawsuit filed by 18-year-old Rachel Canning.
Canning claims her parents threw her out of their Lincoln Park home when she turned 18. She's suing for her parents to pay her outstanding private high school tuition bill ($5,306), pay her current living and transportation expenses, and make available an existing college fund.
Canning's father, retired Lincoln Park police Chief Sean Canning, tells that his daughter voluntarily left home in October because she didn't want to abide by reasonable household rules, such as being respectful, keeping a curfew and doing some chores.
鈥淲e love our child and miss her. This is terrible. It鈥檚 killing me and my wife. We have a child we want home. We鈥檙e not Draconian and now we鈥檙e getting hauled into court. She鈥檚 demanding that we pay her bills but she doesn鈥檛 want to live at home and she鈥檚 saying, 鈥業 don鈥檛 want to live under your rules,鈥� 鈥� Sean Canning said.聽
The father said that he and his wife did stop paying the Morris Catholic tuition and have kept Rachel鈥檚 car because they paid for it. The father contended that Rachel moved out because she didn鈥檛 want to abide by simple household rules 鈥� be respectful, keep a curfew, return 鈥渂orrowed鈥� items to her two sisters, manage a few chores, and reconsider or end her relationship with a boyfriend the parents believe is a bad influence.
She's been living in Rockaway Township with the family of her best friend. The newspaper reports that the friend's father, former Morris County Freeholder John Inglesino, is funding the lawsuit.
