--- title: Rachel Canning, NJ Teen Who Sued Parents, Goes Home description: Rachel Canning has reconciled with her parents and will return home, with no financial strings attached canonical: https://time.com/21797/nj-teen-who-sued-her-parents-goes-home/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-12T17:14:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:00.174Z og:title: NJ Teen Who Sued Parents Returns Home og:description: Rachel Canning has reconciled with her parents and will return home, with no financial strings attached og:url: https://time.com/21797/nj-teen-who-sued-her-parents-goes-home/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta311bc58a6c03dbd/698684ec06f2c126ce32dce8/rachel-canning.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3888 og:image:height: 2187 og:image:alt: High school senior Rachel Canning, 18, appears in Morris County Superior Court in Morristown, N.J., on March 4, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: NJ Teen Who Sued Parents Returns Home twitter:description: Rachel Canning has reconciled with her parents and will return home, with no financial strings attached twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta311bc58a6c03dbd/698684ec06f2c126ce32dce8/rachel-canning.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # NJ Teen Who Sued Her Parents Goes Home > Sponsored content. 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Rachel Canning “has returned home and reunited with her parents and siblings,” her parents’ attorney Angelo Sarno said in a statement, according to NJ.com. “Her return home is not contingent on any financial and/or other considerations.” Canning moved out of her parents’ house after they demanded she break up with a boyfriend and insisted on house rules and a curfew. In a lawsuit that made national headlines, she sued her parents for child support and school fees while living with a friend’s family, who fronted her legal fees. Last week, a judge refused Rachel’s request for an emergency order to require her parents to make the payments. \[[NJ.com](http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2014/03/nj%5Fteen%5Fwho%5Fsued%5Fparents%5Fis%5Fgoing%5Fhome.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/21797/nj-teen-who-sued-her-parents-goes-home/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/21797/nj-teen-who-sued-her-parents-goes-home/"},"headline":"NJ Teen Who Sued Her Parents Goes Home","datePublished":"2014-03-12T17:14:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:00.174Z","description":"Rachel Canning has reconciled with her parents and will return home, with no financial strings attached","url":"https://time.com/21797/nj-teen-who-sued-her-parents-goes-home/","keywords":["Living","Parenting","New Jersey","Teenagers","Lawsuit"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta311bc58a6c03dbd/698684ec06f2c126ce32dce8/rachel-canning.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta311bc58a6c03dbd/698684ec06f2c126ce32dce8/rachel-canning.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"High school senior Rachel Canning, 18, appears in Morris County Superior Court in Morristown, N.J., on March 4, 2014.","caption":"High school senior Rachel Canning, 18, appears in Morris County Superior Court in Morristown, N.J., on March 4, 2014.","creditText":"Bob Karp—Daily Record/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/21797/nj-teen-who-sued-her-parents-goes-home/","name":"NJ Teen Who Sued Her Parents Goes Home"}}]}] ```