Adult child of divorce

[Forever370]

I am 18 years old and just out found out that my parents are getting a divorce. I live in the state of Massachusetts. Am I at all entitled to sue my father for benefits? For example...I would like to be the beneficiary of at least a portion of his life insurance policy regardless of whether or not he is remarried, and I would like him to pay for the remainder of my college tuition, and in addition he stands to make a large amount of money in his company over the next three years, and I would like to have a portion of that money put in trust on a yearly basis. If these issues are not worked out in the divorce agreement to my satisfaction, do I have any right to sue him on my own?

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

I am 18 years old and just out found out that my parents are getting a divorce. I live in the state of Massachusetts. Am I at all entitled to sue my father for benefits? For example...I would like to be the beneficiary of at least a portion of his life insurance policy regardless of whether or not he is remarried, and I would like him to pay for the remainder of my college tuition, and in addition he stands to make a large amount of money in his company over the next three years, and I would like to have a portion of that money put in trust on a yearly basis. If these issues are not worked out in the divorce agreement to my satisfaction, do I have any right to sue him on my own?

My response:

Well, there's no love lost there, is there.

The answer to all of your questions is an unequivocal, and resounding, "No."

You, as the child of your parents, have no legal "standing" to sue your father or your mother in terms of "their" marriage. In fact, you're an adult now, and your name and life-needs won't even be brought up in the divorce agreement.

IAAL