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Teen who sued parents lands $56K scholarship

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Teen who sued parents lands $56K scholarship
By Joe Tacopino
April 2, 2014 | 5:36am

It turns out she didn’t need her parents’ money after all.

The bratty New Jersey teen who sued her mom and dad for child support and college money is bragging about the hefty scholarship she won from a Massachusetts school.

Rachel Canning, who dropped the ludicrous lawsuit against her folks last month, revealed the windfall on her Facebook page Sunday, The Star-Ledger reported Tuesday.

“Decision made,” Canning wrote on March 30. “WNE U class of 2018 BME Major w/ 56,000$ scholarship.”

Western New England University, the school Canning said she is attending, is located in Springfield, Mass.

The school’s tuition is about $46,000 per year, including room and board, the paper said.

This would leave the former Morris Catholic HS student with nearly $10,000 of spending money before she needs to hit up Mom and Pops.

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Lincoln Park teen who sued parents returns home; family issues will be settled in private

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Lincoln Park teen who sued parents returns home; family issues will be settled in private

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2014    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY MARCH 12, 2014, 11:27 PM
BY  CHRISTOPHER MAAG AND STEFANIE DAZIO
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD

It was a case that struck fear in the hearts of parents around the world. If a teenager does not like her parents’ rules, can she move out of their house and then sue them for hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial support?

Rachel Canning, the 18-year-old senior at Morris Catholic High School, may never know for sure. She’s moved back into her family’s home in Lincoln Park, a lawyer for her parents announced at a news conference Wednesday, possibly ending a lawsuit that landed her troubled family in the middle of a global media firestorm.

“The bottom line is it’s over. She’s home,” said Angelo Sarno, the lawyer for Rachel’s parents, Sean and Elizabeth Canning. “You can’t address family grievances in a courtroom.”

Family law experts around North Jersey agreed.

“There really was no need for this family’s situation to become a public matter in the first place,” said Bari Weinberger, a family law attorney in Paramus. “These are parents with a child in need of counseling and help behind closed doors, not a legal battle in open court. It’s a relief to see that cooler heads prevailed.”

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