18 year old sues parents for kicking her out and not paying her tuition

[Sarah Ibarruri]

188. I agree on the high school, though there are plenty of public schools around, and I think their

choice to send her to a private school was very, very generous of them. If there is a financial contract between them (parents) and the private high school, that's a financial agreement, and financial agreements need to be honored.

On a side note, I'm very, very familiar with Morristown, New Jersey (where they all live) and the public schools there are unusually fantastic, which is pretty shocking with such as Christie. The reason for this, is that Morristown is one of the wealthiest towns in the U.S. So, the parents are not some horned, evil freaks if they chose to send her not to even to a great public school, but to a private one.

Here's the key to choices of boyfriend or choices in lifestyle - if she has reached majority (18), you're 100% right, the girl has a right to choose how to live her life, no matter what that decision is. She can move out, hang out with anyone she desires, and do anything she wishes without asking her parents. On the other hand, when offspring reach majority the parents have no financial obligation. The only obligation here is to honor any financial agreement to the private school.

Regarding the college tuition savings plan (which everyone keeps mentioning might belong to the beneficiary), most if not all state tuition plans are owned by the initiators of the plans. I just googled New Jersey's own tuition savings plan, and in New Jersey these are owned by the initiators of the plan, and this can be anyone who starts a plan, a parent, an aunt or uncle, grandparent, friend, anyone. They are not owned by the student. In fact, as I've mentioned in another post, these plans are often cashed out by the initiator/owner for whatever reason without any regard for the beneficiary they started the plan for, because they are owned by the owner of the plan and not by the beneficiary. In fact, they can even be transferred from one child to another, or to the beneficiary upon the beneficiary reaching 18 (if the owners desire to do this). I reviewed New Jersey's Tuition Plan Withdrawal Form, and there is only a need for the initiator/owner of the plan to sign and submit the form in order to cash out the plan. The person for whom it is purchased (the beneficiary) is not the owner and can do nothing with the plan.