Custody Battle Waged Over Brain-damaged Mom's Triplets

[Darwin333]

You must be right, since i'm an avid supporter of abortion, my price tag must be really low.

A few hundred bucks then depending on where you go. Don't some insurance policies cover it too? So would you use the total price paid by both insurance and co-pay or just the co-pay?

Hell, even full grown adults usually are "worth" very little stuff (money/resources) if you average it out globally.


Like I said, not much. The human life we are discussing is the rare exception, not the rule.

 

[Wreckem]

1. Wouldn't that require a living will that specifically stated that her parents, not her husband, had some sort of power of attorney? Right now if I am in the same situation I am almost certain that my wife would have full control of all of my finances, assets, etc...

2. Why should her trust not pay child support? The entire idea of child support is to better the lives of the kids and to ensure they are supported. Even if the guy is a douche, why should the children be punished because of it? I have never in my entire life heard of a man getting out of child support because his ex-wife is "a douche".

Is there another article that I didn't read or something? She is definitely not fit to be the custodial parent. I have read nothing that states that he is unfit. "She" might be suing for custody but it is the grandparents that are making ALL of the decisions unless she is blinking Morse code to her attorney or something...

I still think that he should allow the kids to see their mother and grandparents but he should not have to travel to the other side of the country to do so. If the grandparents want to come pick the kids up and bring them back and forth a week or two during the summer that is very reasonable.

1. It all depends, but what happens in a lot of cases involving incompetent people involved in lawsuits is the court appoints someone with no interest in the case to represent the interests of the incompetent person. In all likelihood she had someone appointed by the court and the settlement/judgement was set up as a trust. I can almost bet on it. Her parents are in charge of her estate because of the filing of divorce, but there is probably a third party administering it.

2. Child support is typically based off of income. She has no income, she has a trust that is a limited amount of money to cover the rest of her life, which it won't cover the rest of her life. If there is any money left when she dies her kids would get that.

3. Hes a douche for suing for child support from a severely brain damaged women with no means to make money beyond her limited trust.

4. Never said she should be custodial, but she should have visitation.

 

[Wreckem]

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Excuse me, its difficult for me to believe that any doctor would simply allow a patient to simply bleed out, but I can believe that the added shock could cause the shock to cause cardiac arrest. As for a defective defibrillator, we presume that any layman or medical professional can tell, at a glance, when a formerly working medical device becomes gostoppen.

I too have been in the situation where I started my car, got miles down the road, and then stepped on the brakes, only to discover one of my brake lines had developed a big leak, and I have no breaks. What is the solution? OH OH, get a brand new car every time? When its common that your brand new car has a pile of factory defects.

Nasa tried that trick, test every system before hand, and they only discovered that the device they tested before failed the next time.

No easy answers, but the bleed out negligence crap is only the assertion of the plaintiff.

Any way you slice it there was negligence on part of the hospital. The defendants knew if they went to trial they would lose because there was an extremely sympathetic plaintiff and there was evidence of negligence. The defendants got a bargain, they would have assuredly got hit with a bigger verdict if it went to trial. The $7.8million won't last long for a person in her condition.

 

[monovillage]

"No easy answers, but the bleed out negligence crap is only the assertion of the plaintiff."

The plaintiff that won $7.8 million.

 

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[manimal]

This story made my wife and I very sad. We have 16 month old triplets and becuase of gestational diabetes and other complications we had to make the harrowing decisions in the last few weeks of pregnancy. With luck and grace all 3 babies and mom made it but the doctors had a very real conversation with us when a few weeks before birth about my wifes risks..

I cannot imagine what it was like to go trough what they did. I imagine the husband has some serious post traumatic damage....

 

[dmcowen674]

Probably be very creepy and scary for the kids to be dragged into a hospital to spend time with their 'vegetable' of a mother... drooling and failing to respond to their presence. Horrifying. (Why not just kill her - humanely?). The women they all knew is long gone. Don't inflict that on the children.

You are obviously a Republican

 

[Veramocor]

I've read a lot of the coverage and 100% of the stories tilt this to being a case of a woman who is disabled not a person who is so brain damaged that her mind is gone and all that is left is her body. The papers seem to be taking it on face value that that she can actually communicate via smiling and blinking. How many times have we seen that what people especially family thinks is communication is just an involuntary response.