Originally posted by: Venix
Why should your parents give your sister $500/mo when she is doing something they disapprove of? She has no right to their money and they have no obligation to give it to her.
Yes, but if she didn't apply for financial aid because her parents told her they'd support her, they're in the wrong for screwing her like this. They should at least continue to give her money on the contingency that she pay it back.
My mother-in-law tried pulling similar crap before my wedding. She absolutely insisted on paying for it, so I used the majority of my savings to buy a house. Then she decided at the last minute that she didn't want to pay for it because she didn't like my family and would rather use the money to buy a boat. This is after tripling its costs because she wanted to invite more people, have more expensive things, etc., and at this point if we cancelled we'd have to pay 50% of the costs as a penalty.
I wound up paying for the entire thing with my savings and some credit cards, and then I sued her for the 2/3's I hadn't planned on paying for and won. I certainly wouldn't have had a problem paying for the entire thing myself, but when someone says, "I'll give you money to do this," I expect them to follow through.