NO AUTHORITY, JUST RESPONSIBILITY: Dad Speaks Out After 21-Year-Old Sues Him to Pay College Tuition. “She didn’t want to abide by our rules, so she left. We asked her several times to come home and she never did. It makes my blood boil listening to a judge tell me that my daughter can go to any school in country she wants to, have no relationship with her parents, and we have to pay! We offered in-state tuition and she wants to go out of state. Common sense would say she should pay for it. The law is ridiculous. My ex and I have met with legislators who are writing a new bill that protects parents from this happening again. Do you realize that if you are married in the state of New Jersey, you are not under any legal obligation to pay for college? But, if you get divorced, you must contribute?”

Isn’t this just slavery under the guise of enforcing parental obligations? She’s an adult who has chosen to live away from home on her own terms, and has no right to take the property of any other adult without consent, parent or no parent.

Earlier: Tom James: Adult children suing parents for child support: Frivolous lawsuit or logical extension of the law? James refers to a similar case, also in New Jersey: “Rachel Canning is not an aberration. She is exactly what people should expect when they give unbridled authority to their governments to micromanage family life.”