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Originally Posted by packetpirate
There is no reason they should have to get rid of anything. They have no right to dictate the way they lead their life. There are other solutions than them having to get rid of whatever it is their parents don't like.
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This is not an issue of right or wrong - its legalities and knowing how to choose your battles wisely.
If the owner of the items is not leasing (as in paying rent) from the property owner (in this case parents), the property owner (mortgage holder) has the right to dispose of whatever is on the property.
Being a dependent child only serves to reinforce the law on this point. Better to sell and use the profits to get out of the hostile environment than to fight a losing battle and see it all put in a garbage truck or burned. I have been through this and I know what is at stake.
What I cannot verfiy, but strongly suspect from the account of what is going on there, is that far more may be at stake than possessions. Parents in this mode often go much farther if they battle too long at this stage. More than once I have know this parental extremist tactic lead to putting a dependent in a psychiatric facility...... when it was the parents who really needed to be put there instead.