The libtards wanted to define marriage incorrectly, so the billionaire just took their own standard and applied the same principle.
Perhaps they DO have a father-daughter relationship...
Posted on 02/02/2012 11:31:18 AM PST by nickcarraway
Polo mogul defends adoption of adult girlfriend
The wealthy South Florida polo club founder who faces a DUI manslaughter charge is speaking out after he legally adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend as his daughter.
An attorney for John Goodman, who earlier this week adopted girlfriend Heather Colby Hutchins, said the unusual move was made to protect his children's trust.
"Nothing in this arrangement with Ms. Hutchins is illegal," attorney Daniel Bachi said in a statement Thursday. "Everything that has been done by Mr. Goodman was done with the intention to preserve and grow the assets of the Trust for his two minor children."
Goodman ran a stop sign in February 2010 and crashed into 23-year-old Wilson, according to police. Wilson died as a result of the crash.
Goodman will go to trial on March 6 to face charges of DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a crash. If the court finds him guilty during a separate civil suit, Goodman could owe money to the family of Scott Patrick Wilson, according to the Palm Beach Post.
The attorneys of the Wilson family claim that Goodman adopted Hutchins to protect one third of his assets, but Bachi says the adoption was to financially secure his two minor children.
"The adoption of Ms. Hutchins will have no effect on the civil proceedings as none of the assets of his children's Trust belong to Mr. Goodman," Bachi said. "All of the assets of the Trust have been disclosed to all parties in the current civil proceedings, so any allegation of hiding or secreting of assets is totally false."
Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley, however, said that the timing of the adoption coincides with the risk of losing money, according to the Post.
"The defendant has effectively diverted a significant portion of the assets of the children's trust to a person with whom he is intimately involved at a time when his personal assets are largely at risk in this case," Kelley was quoted as saying.
Goodman founded the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington. He could serve up to 30 years in prison if found guilty in the crash.
Maybe he should also be charged with incest.
It’s funny how his lawyer can say it’s to preserve the childrens’ finances, when, if the judge is correct, it actually takes money from them and gives it to the girlfriend/”daughter”, presumably so he can recover it if he loses everything else in the lawsuit.
I’d LMAO if the girlfriend/”daugher” took the money and split.
Another good liberal tax dodger, pushing his alternative lifestyle
I haven’t heard anything like that since an Amos n Andy episode in which the Kingfish tried to get a couple wanting A child to adopt 43 year old Andy.
He apparently has a lot of trust in her.
No elected Judge would ever grant this adoption if he knew all the facts. The adoption should be reversed based on fraud.
The game is still in play..... what if after the money disbursement she files for emancipation and then marries her, Money back free of inheritance tax.
The Woody Allen Good Parenting Award
The libtards wanted to define marriage incorrectly, so the billionaire just took their own standard and applied the same principle.
Perhaps they DO have a father-daughter relationship...
http://www.khou.com/news/Court-documents-Houston-millionaire-adopts-adult-girlfriend--138529104.html
His two kids should file their own action against him.
Or else she read him the riot act.
If I’m reading this correctly, the money in the children’s Trust is untouchable in the civil case. By adopting the 42-year old and giving her 1/3 of the Trust, he’s really only taking money from his children. His assets (those not in the Trust) are up for grabs in the civil suit. I guess his kids could be pissed, but hell, it was his money in the first place.
I agree, it kind of sounds like what you described, but it makes little sense for him to do that. I think somehow, he must be pushing some of his non-trust assets to his gf.
Gee....do ya think?
This is just soooooo wrong...I’m gonna hurl!
Not really since he gave the money away, deeming it exempt property from creditors. Maybe his kids are angry at him for whatever reason and refuse to participate in the sham. Thus the girlfriends adoption so he can get his grubby hands on it judgement free.
Liberal? Alternative lifestyle? How so?
True, it really doesn’t make sense. Doesn’t buy him anything unless he’s going to transfer assets to his new bunlde of joy. Or maybe there’s no way to get money back from the Trust. Fun stuff, except of course, for the young dead person.
He must be up to something, because the Trust (if I’m not mistaken) is untouchable as is. “Protecting the minor children’s financial interest” is pure BS. It’s protected already, without doing a thing.
Second, this depraved legal maneuvering will not work because the boy's family has already filed suit against him and the court will find that this action is nothing more than an attempt to keep assets from the reach of the plaintiffs. I sincerely hope the judge finds this to be as deplorable an act as I do and as a result, doubles the jury's award.
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