A high school senior in Denville New Jersey,
now 18 and an honor student, is suing her parents because they refuse to pay
for the rest of her Catholic high school education and for college in the fall.
The girl claims she was kicked out of the house.
Now, she wants the court to order her parents to support
her.
"It's going to be tough, it's going to be tough for me
and my wife," said Sean Canning, Rachel's father.
Sean Canning says it's tearing his family apart.
His 18-year-old daughter, Rachel left home last year and is
now suing him to pay for her living expenses and her college education.
"Are there privileges to living under my roof and my
rules? Yeah, private schools, new car, college education, yeah, that's what
comes with living under our roof," Canning said.
Canning is a retired police chief who says like many other
American households, his household has rules. But he says Rachel chose to leave
home in a dispute over curfews and chores.
Rachel is an honor student at Morris Catholic High School
and is living in Rockaway, New Jersey with her best friend and their family,
whom Canning says is bankrolling the lawsuit.
"We would be wholed and healed as a family if you were
back home. I think she's being enabled, I think she's being steered down the
wrong area and it's killing us, it really is," Canning said.
The lawsuit was filed in family court last week. Neither
Rachel nor her attorney was available for comment. Both sides are expected to
appear in court Tuesday. It will be the first time Sean Canning will see his
daughter since October of last year.
