--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # NJ Teen Who Sued Her Parents Goes Home  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Mar 12, 2014 5:14 PM UTC  High school senior Rachel Canning, 18, appears in Morris County Superior Court in Morristown, N.J., on March 4, 2014. High school senior Rachel Canning, 18, appears in Morris County Superior Court in Morristown, N.J., on March 4, 2014.Bob Karp—Daily Record/AP  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Mar 12, 2014 5:14 PM UTC The NJ teenager who sued her parents for child support after she moved out of their house has [returned home](http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2014/03/nj%5Fteen%5Fwho%5Fsued%5Fparents%5Fis%5Fgoing%5Fhome.html), her parents’ lawyers announced Wednesday. 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"}}]}] ```