it's a broken family dynamic at this
point
i'm not sure exactly how we got there
but we're here
next we go to family court in morristown
new jersey
the plaintiff is 18 year old rachel
cannon
the defendants her own parents
the teen who claims she was verbally
abused and kicked out of the home
is suing them for financial support
she's seeking 654 dollars per week to
cover
private school and college tuition and
payment of her legal bills
the parents claim rachel made her own
decision to leave home and as such
they're not responsible for her bills
even though canning's 18
she claims she's not an emancipated
adult and is still dependent on her
parents
i believe that she is a vulnerable young
woman and
her parents aren't taking care of her
and i'm asking the court
to help her in this very difficult
situation because
they have constructively abandoned her
and i believe that they are being
negligent and irresponsible
these statements that they don't want to
help her and they've left her on the
street
are so dramatic there's no reason she
couldn't come home to her household in
her private school and her new car
but she didn't want to give up the
boyfriend right thank you very much
one of the driving forces behind the
suit is that mom and dad
don't approve of rachel's boyfriend
her attorney reads a transcript from a
phone call made by rachel's mother
elizabeth
we gave her the ultimatum of breaking up
with her boyfriend
and if she didn't break up with her
boyfriend that she wasn't allowed to
stay past her 18th birthday
and that's the crux of it that is the
problem in this case
but according to rachel's parents the
boyfriend is part of a much larger
problem with their daughter's behavior
which they've shared with judge peter
bogard they've raised several
issues and obviously several mistakes
have been made
the young lady who is in court has an
alleged history
staying out during the week from 12 to 1
o'clock
drinking was brought home one night by
a male friend's parent at three o'clock
intoxicated school suspensions
was stripped of her captaincy as a
cheerleader
was removed from the campus
ministry i don't think what the county
is saying is true
according to canning the verbal abuse
she suffered at home was so bad
her private high school supported her
decision to leave
they have been behind
this move because they see and they know
that what's going on in the county
household is not good for rachel
unfortunately for canning the decision
for the money
known as emergent relief is not up to
the school
it's up to the judge but after hearing
an
angry voicemail canning left for her
parents
you're a real winner aren't you i really
just wanna all over your face right
now
anyway i hate you have a nice life
he has some strong words for the
plaintiff
have you ever seen a young adult
child whatever we want to call rachel
shows such
gross disrespect for a parent
the words that were used in a voicemail
to her mother
where the mother is calling the daughter
the same kind of name so i would go
that's the parents that said that
president
they're the ones who raised this child
this is the language that they're using
in their household
are we going to uh condone
or open the gates to a 12 year old
to sue for an xbox a 13 year old to sue
for an iphone
or how about a 15 year old asking for a
60 inch black panel
tv i understand the allegations that are
raised in this case are far more serious
than those types of material goods but
again i'd like
the full council to be mindful of a
potential
slippery slope here not
and available drops the lawsuit and in
case you're wondering
she did break up with the boyfriend
she's always going to be
your daughter no matter what happens
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