you can sue the hell out of them you know

If you can prove that you earned that money yourself, then it's yours. It's illegal for your parents to take money you earned. Basically what I would do is make an appointment to see someone at the police station, bring the payslips or whatever, and ask them to call your parents for you and explain that it's illegal. Simple and might do the trick.

Oh good lord. I'm losing more and more faith in humans everyday.

Unless your parents contributed all the money it's illegal for them to take yours. I'm sure their names were on it since you can't get an account in your name only until you're 18, but I'm pretty sure there's something you can do. It seems there would be something against them using a minor's money for their expenses, probably relating to child labor laws. Kids aren't supposed to pay for their parent's stuff.

I would start ebaying everything valuable that they own, including cars until I got my money back. That or kill them and inherit everything?

Where in the **** are you supposed to get a college education for only $10,000??

If you are under 18 your parents are allowed to remove money from your bank account - whether you agree with it or not, even if you are the only one who ever put money into it. My dad did it to my one savings account. Lucky for me my grandpa caught it because he took me to make a deposit just a few weeks later - we got my money back, closed that account and I kept my money out of the bank after that

Broc, $10,000 would give you 2 1/2 years at some good state schools - though it does depend on your major of study. I can show a school thats known as the best for athlethic training and one of the best for education on the East coast that meets that criteria. Its also one of only three schools in the US that offers information technology (or was 4 years ago) - so those graduates always had 6 job offers before they even made it to graduation. But you'd still need to come up with the rest of the money. However, student grants and loans would easily cover it. The downside is those schools may not offer the major you want You can also get an education for $10,000 alone at a community college. The downside is most people don't consider community college real degrees, but you can start there and then transfer into one of the schools I mentioned after 2 years- not sure what that would make your 4 year tuition.

OP - write a letter to the newspaper editor about what your parents did, include a copy of the bank statement and pics of the new item as proof, make sure you mail it in, and leave a copy laying around for your parents to see so they get really nervous about what the neighbors will think even if the newspaper doesn't believe it. Use your letter to encourage young people to keep their money out of their banks because they never know when the people they are supposed to trust will take their money - also use this same basis to write to local politicians about the underage bank law and leave that in the same pile. Make your parents nervous as hell. Maybe even some flyers outlining a plan for Youth for protection of bank accounts rally and things.

i would sriously be like "mom, dad, give back my money by next month or i take back the pool and plasma. oh, and i'll be adding 10% interest each week, so you better hurry and pay it back." smile, and then walk off.