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Daughter Sues Parents Over Stolen College Funds

Daughter Sues Parents Over Stolen College Funds

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College debt is a huge topic in the media and political world currently, many students are graduating college with a mountain of debt and no prospective jobs to pay that debt back.

The lucky ones have their college paid for by their family, receive scholarships, or have an extended family member that had the foresight to put away money for them to attend college.

One young college student was fortunate enough to have an extended family member leave her money for higher education and has learned that her parents have taken a large portion of that money to fund something for one of her siblings, leaving her with only a small piece of what was left, she is now suing her parents for theft of the money. She refuses to drop the lawsuit unless her college is paid for.

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The original poster (OP) starts by saying that her great-aunt had set up savings accounts for all of her female relatives because, in her culture, education for women is not valued, and she thought that was wrong and wanted to give her female relatives the option to further their education if they wanted to.

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She says her great-aunt lived with her father in London, where she attended college and became a doctor. She married a British man, and they moved to America and had a great life.

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Her great-aunt funded the education of as many of her nieces and grandnieces as she could. Before her great-aunt passed away, she left money in an account for every female relative she could.

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Unbeknownst to her, she said that her parents managed to access the accounts set up for her and her sister, and they used the money to pay for her brother’s wedding. She said her sister didn’t care because she married two years after graduating high school and did not intend to go to college.

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However, when she graduated, she went to the bank to get the money to pay for college, and it was almost all gone. She said there was only $13,000 left in her account.

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