reporter: canning is a retired police chief who says like many other american household, his household has rules but he says rachel chose to leave home in a dispute over curfew and chores. rachel is an honor student at morris catholic high school and living in rockaway, new jersey, with her best friend and their family, who canning says is bank rolling the lawsuit. we would be whole and healed as a family if she were back home. i think she s being enabled. i think she s being steered down the wrong area and it s killing us. reporter: people we spoke to it didn t quite see two sides to this story. i think my house, my rules. you know, there s a respect there. it s his rules, your father s rule, you stay home. you can t, time to move on. i feel kind of bad for her but i also feel bad for the parents. reporter: the lawsuit was filed in family court last week. neither rachel nor her attorney were available for comment. both sides are expected to appear in court. it will be th
suing her partners claiming they threw her out of their lincoln park home when she turned 18 years old. and the parents said she moved out because she didn t want to abide by the mom and dad s rules. reporter: is she spoiled or abandoned. rachel canning is a honor student and in her senior year in morris catholic high school. and she left home november on her 18 birthday and went to stay with a friend s family. she said they tried to break her up with her boyfriend and cut her off financially. she is suing them trying to get her to pay the high school and college tuitition. her father said it was a conflict over rules that escalating in full- blown