FUNNY: Spoilt Teenage Girl Sues Her Parents For Money

Rachel

This case you are about to read has gone viral and is currently trending in the United States. Just imagine this happening in Nigeria.

A New Jersey teenager, 18 years old Rachel Canning, has sued her parents because, she claims, they threw her out of the house when she turned 18 and refused to pay for her private high school and college education.

According to Rachel, her mother and father kicked her out of their home and cut her off financially when she
turned 18, November 1st 2013, and that they have been mean to her. She also claimed abuse, even though there's no evidence of that other than a yelling match a school official witnessed between Canning and her mother.

So, in the lawsuit, Rachel asked the court to force her parents to pay her living and transportation expenses for the foreseeable future, pay the outstanding tuition for her private high school, use money from an existing college fund to pay for at least some of her college education.

 The parents, meanwhile, say that daughter Rachel Canning, 18, is “an incredibly rebellious teen.” Rachel's father, Sean Canning, a town administrator and retired police officer, said he and wife never kicked Rachel out at all. Instead, he explains, she up and left on her own in late October because she didn’t want to abide by her parents’ rules.  He said:

We love our child and miss her. This is terrible. It’s killing me and my wife. We have a child we want home. We’re not Draconian and now we’re getting hauled into court.

Rachel's parents say they asked her to reconsider her relationship with a boyfriend they believe may be a bad influence, but Rachel would hear none of that. She's not respectful, she won't abide by her curfew.

“Living in our house, there’s very few things. There’s minor chores. There’s curfews. When I say curfew, it’s usually after 11 o’clock at night. 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.’”

For months now, Rachel — an honor student, cheerleader, and lacrosse player — has been living with her best friend, Jaime Inglesino's family. And Jaime's father, attorney John Inglesino, is bankrolling Rachel’s lawsuit. He’s also requesting in the lawsuit that the Cannings reimburse him for the legal fees, so far totaling $12,597 (over N2million).