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My Parents Want To Forcefully Pull Me Out Of College And Prevent Me From Accessing My Trust Fund Because Of Religion.

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Location: Texas, United States

For context, I am a woman (early 20's) in a Mormon family. I want to leave LDS, but my parents threatened that if I do, they'll pull me out of college, prevent me from accessing my trust fund, cut me off financially, and kick me out of the house. My college fund was set up by my grandparents before my grandfather passed away, but my grandmother is still living. The trust fund was my inheritance from my late grandfather. That's two funds managed by my grandmother, and I imagine it would be easy for my parents to manipulate her into cutting me off.

Normally it would be easy to just lie about being LDS just to protect myself, but I made the mistake of confronting my mom about how messed up it is that I'm being threatened into staying. In response, she says she's going to go through with pulling me out of school. She would need my dad's approval to do this, so it's not set in stone yet, but it's a risk.

I cannot be homeless, especially under the Trump administration. If my parents go through with the threats mentioned in the first paragraph, is there anything I can legally do to fight back? I'm not sure how funds work, but surely there's a way to prevent people from weaponizing funds against me.

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