In most cases, you’re absolutely right. If you are getting your rent and bills paid by somebody else for 22 years of your adult life, it’s pretty hard not to consider that an economic union.
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Of all the problems there are with Oxford University, inadequate teaching isn’t one that I think of. They use the tutorial system.
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Show me the contract.
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FYI yall, this divorce discussion is off topic, and I’d guess it’s likely to get moderated/deleted from this thread. You’re wasting your time and energy, unless you’d like to get back to the topic of this dude who’s suing his parents.
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Baloney. This isn’t a couple that encouraged their emotionally stunted son to stay in the basement playing video games for 30 years and then threw him out on the street one day without warning. They provided him with an education and opportunities that would allow an even modestly motivated person to make millions without any further parental support.
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He went to the University of Oxford, which means he is qualified to be a Conservative British Prime Minister. Half of all Prime ministers went there, a quarter went to Cambridge instead.
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You may be right, and do bring up the good point. I have a hard time believing that people are just shitty without their parents/upbringing being a big part of it. This might be one of those cases.
If you abuse your kids because your parent abused you; you should still go to prison.
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Whether they did a good job raising their son to be a healthy, well-balanced human being is rather beside the point. Either way it’s silly to suggest they owe him ongoing financial support.
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They didn’t even kick him out of the fancy home, from what I read they just stopped giving him his “pin money.” 
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Boot him. Change the locks.
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Classic case of “born on third base, someone else hit a homer, but somehow he’s the victim.”
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And this, folks, is why you always get an allowance agreement in writing. /s
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This is not someone who can’t support themselves.
They may not want to. They may not be able to support themselves in the multimillionaire lifestyle their parents could provide them but anyone working as a qualified fee-earner at any of those firms is quite happily able to support themselves.
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One of the articles does report that he was unable to work due to health issues (unspecified), and that the removal of support was due to a family argument.
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Absent a contract*, the parents still aren’t obliged to continue support for a child who’s reached the age of majority and who doesn’t have a major disability. There’s not much of a case for an implied contact being made here, either.
The health issue is being presented as tangential rather than central to the claim, which is that he as a grown man deserves the same child support protections as a minor whose parents – unlike his – divorced.
Reading between the lines, the judge seems dubious that the claimed mental health difficulties (and the suggestive “various [other] difficulties”) are so severe that they preclude any gainful employment at all. What we do see is an adult with a history of entitlement and a track record of going to court or falling back on his parents’ money when he doesn’t get what he thinks he’s due.
[* contrast with a marriage contract, which memorialises a partnership and provides a basis for the court determining alimony and child support upon divorce based on standard rubrics.]
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Yes, I can see the health point. I’m sure the legal arguments were rather more nuanced than the reporting indicates.
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Link to judgment:
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