The spoiled teen who’s suing her parents for private-school tuition says they can’t legally enforce a curfew or any other rules on her.
A Facebook post believed to be written by Rachel Canning says the teen’s folks are legally obligated to support her until she graduates from high school, whether she lives by their rules or not.
“In New Jersey (as in most states) parents are required to support their kids through high school unless legally emancipated, which I’m not,” reads the post on a fan page called “Education for Rachel.”
“This means that they can NOT put conditions on me being at home, which they did. They can’t get out of this,” the post continues.
Those parent-imposed rules included an 11 p.m. curfew, requirements that she do some household chores,
and other limits.
“The fact that they cut my tuition was also clear bad faith, and a breach of contract with the school.
What did they expect me to do, drop out?”
The teen, a senior at Morris Catholic HS, sued her parents Sean and Elizabeth last month, demanding that they pay for her Catholic-school education, college and other expenses — even though she left their Lincoln Park home in October, days before her 18th birthday.
Her parents have previously argued Rachel moved out because she didn’t want to obey their rules.
Canning or her supporters have been waging a campaign against her parents on Facebook.
But Sean Canning, a retired police chief, said he doesn’t believe his daughter is behind the online rants and can’t stand to see her “savaged” in the press.
“The war drums keep beating against her,” he told the Daily Record in Morris County. “My wife and I are pained to see this, to see her be savaged, to see Rachel be tabloid fodder.”