Decision protects seniors from predatory marriage

[Smallcock]

To all you older gents, never lose sight of the fact that the young'un that you're dating is only there for the money.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...ts-to-his-wealth-not-so-fast-judge-rules.html

 

[Occasionally]

Good article.

Always be weary of gold diggers gents.

That's why for me, I'll always go after (still looking and crossing fingers!) for that special someone who's roughly at about my status. So if we ever hook up and break up, we're both around the same level in terms of jobs and assets. So when it comes to break up time, neither side really has anything to gain.

I've seen my share of friends and corworkers divorcing. And low and behold, what a surprise...... the marriages that had big gaps between spouses always seems to go worse, than two people who had about the same level of money, jobs and assets.

I'm not someone who will be a gold digger, so no worry from my end. But I have zero interest being someone else's personal bank account who will try to rip the carpet from under my feet.

 

[itd131]

Older women do this as well. It has happened twice in my family that I can think of. Everyone involved were senior citizens.

 

[Aardvark154]

Two comments:

Given that he already has had a very serious brain injury what on earth is he doing riding without a riding cap or helmet!

The article is overly simplistic indeed misleading about the effect of a subsequent marriage on a previously made will in the U.S.

While it is true that in most states a subsequent marriage does not void a valid previously made will, those states also have pretermission statutes as part of their probate code. These almost universally reflect the provisions of the Uniform Probate Code, and provide that a spouse excluded by a will made prior to marriage takes the same share of their spouse's estate they would have had the spouse died intestate (without a will).

Hence in most states the sort of situation described in the article will end up in court, where the family just as in this article is going to have to show the court that their relative was not competent to marry. Otherwise, just as in Ontario the spouse is going to be receiving approximately half the estate.

Will also say that in many states there is a push on those able to solemnize civil marriages that if they have doubts about competency don't proceed and notify the State.

 

[apoptygma]

Two comments:

Given that he already has had a very serious brain injury what on earth is he doing riding without a riding cap or helmet!

The article is overly simplistic indeed misleading about the effect of a subsequent marriage on a previously made will in the U.S.

While it is true that in most states a subsequent marriage does not void a valid previously made will, those states also have pretermission statutes as part of their probate code. These almost universally reflect the provisions of the Uniform Probate Code, and provide that a spouse excluded by a will made prior to marriage takes the same share of their spouse's estate they would have had the spouse died intestate (without a will).

Hence in most states the sort of situation described in the article will end up in court, where the family just as in this article is going to have to show the court that their relative was not competent to marry. Otherwise, just as in Ontario the spouse is going to be receiving approximately half the estate.

Will also say that in many states there is a push on those able to solemnize civil marriages that if they have doubts about competency don't proceed and notify the State.

The man is from Muskoka.

 

[Aardvark154]

The man is from Muskoka.

Absolutely so. However, read the paragraph which starts "Hunt’s case is unusual because most . . ." and the next paragraph "Ontario protections are . . ." these are the fifth and sixth paragraphs above the photograph of Mr. Hunt riding a horse.

The article implies that Ontario is backwards and that most of the U.S.A. is much better -- I was pointing out that the article dramatically overstates this. This is a situation which would end up in court pretty much wherever you live in North America.

 

[spraggamuffin]

It took so long after Anna Nicole Smith.

 

[IM469]

So I've worked hard all my life for my money and greedy relatives would rather put me in a senior home drooling at a TV screen rather than this socially unacceptable behaviour :

Fuck'm !

Unless mental incompetence can be proven .... (my opinion anyways).