Here's something you might be interested in.
Since I talked about an old lady from Oceanside the other day, I thought I'd go back to that theme.
Herbert Woodward II (you can tell he's old from a name like that), and Wani Bielinski live in an elder-care facility in Oceanside. Herb is 88, and under the care of a court-appointed guardian and conservator. He suffers from dementia.
Wani is 86. The two eloped. They had met a few years earlier and wanted to marry, but one of Woodward's sons objected. When that son was out of town, a friend drove them to a Vista courthouse. His behavior was getting, well, shakey. He was moved to a different facility.
After two years of, uh, blissful marriage...the son says his dad wants it annualed. And a court is looking at the case. Wani's family says she never got spousal support, and it's not about that.
It's funny, because I thought about the Anna Nicole Smith case. Everyone was convinced she married him for the money. Well, okay, she probably did. I doubt she was just attracted to a guy that looked like a raisin in a wheelchair. But, it was he who pursued her. She spent almost two years, rebuffing his attempts.
She finally married him, and everyone was up in arms with her.
I have a perfect solution for the courts, on any of these future cases.
If anybody gets married at 75, then should the marriage end in divorce, or the death of one partner...the living partner gets nothing. Absolutely nothing. No wills can be changed. Everything goes to the kids.
This will keep any questioning of why they got married, out of the equation.
And, don't tell say "What if the guy signs documents, that he is marrying the woman because he really loves her?" That doesn't fly. Too many old, lonely men have been duped. And the woman should have money or assets, when she came into this late marriage. She can still retain those, obviously.
I'm sure there have been some stories about senior citizens marrying, and everything works out fine. But it seems so much easier this way. It's like a prenuptial agreement, that the laws make old people have. And, we don't need to worry about if the old person was suffering dimentia, confused, or who knows what else.
Since I talked about an old lady from Oceanside the other day, I thought I'd go back to that theme.
Herbert Woodward II (you can tell he's old from a name like that), and Wani Bielinski live in an elder-care facility in Oceanside. Herb is 88, and under the care of a court-appointed guardian and conservator. He suffers from dementia.
Wani is 86. The two eloped. They had met a few years earlier and wanted to marry, but one of Woodward's sons objected. When that son was out of town, a friend drove them to a Vista courthouse. His behavior was getting, well, shakey. He was moved to a different facility.
After two years of, uh, blissful marriage...the son says his dad wants it annualed. And a court is looking at the case. Wani's family says she never got spousal support, and it's not about that.
It's funny, because I thought about the Anna Nicole Smith case. Everyone was convinced she married him for the money. Well, okay, she probably did. I doubt she was just attracted to a guy that looked like a raisin in a wheelchair. But, it was he who pursued her. She spent almost two years, rebuffing his attempts.
She finally married him, and everyone was up in arms with her.
I have a perfect solution for the courts, on any of these future cases.
If anybody gets married at 75, then should the marriage end in divorce, or the death of one partner...the living partner gets nothing. Absolutely nothing. No wills can be changed. Everything goes to the kids.
This will keep any questioning of why they got married, out of the equation.
And, don't tell say "What if the guy signs documents, that he is marrying the woman because he really loves her?" That doesn't fly. Too many old, lonely men have been duped. And the woman should have money or assets, when she came into this late marriage. She can still retain those, obviously.
I'm sure there have been some stories about senior citizens marrying, and everything works out fine. But it seems so much easier this way. It's like a prenuptial agreement, that the laws make old people have. And, we don't need to worry about if the old person was suffering dimentia, confused, or who knows what else.