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John Goodman, 48, appears to have come upon a legal strategy that clenches the title of the worst person in the world. Goodman, the wealthy founder of the International Polo Club Beach in Wellington, was arrested after he killed Scott Patrick Wilson, 23, while driving drunk. Facing a civil lawsuit from his family, Goodman has … .
A wealthy Florida man has adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend as a daughter in a move critics say will protect the man’s assets during an upcoming lawsuit surrounding a deadly car accident. Polo Club Palm Beach founder John Goodman, 48, adopted his longtime partner Heather Laruso Hutchins in October, The Palm Beach Post reports. The strategy … .
Multimillionaire John Goodman, 48, adopted his girlfriend Heather Hutchins, 42, last October. Goodman, pictured, is accused of the 2010 DUI-related death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson..
Well, isn’t this a special use of adoption?!  A polo tycoon has adopted his girlfriend so that he can hide his assets from the family of the man he killed in a drunk driving incident:When a man wants to spend the rest of his life with a woman, he often extends an offer to her to become part of his family. But International Polo Club Palm Beach founder John Goodman, 48, did so in a very unorthodox way. The multimillionaire trust-fund heir adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend Heather Laruso Hutchins last fall, after being accused of drunk driving in a 2010 accident that left 23-year-old Scott Wilson dead.Goodman is being sued by Wilsonand#226;and#128;and#153;s parents for wrongful death. According to police reports, Goodman ran a stop sign on February 10, 2010 in Wellington, Florida and smashed into Wilson, sending his car into a canal.   Scott Wilson, a 23-year-old graduate of the University of Central Florida, was killed in 2010 Circuit Judge Glenn Kelly had previously ruled that the trust funds set up for his two biological children were off-limits in the lawsuit, according to the Palm Beach Post. Court papers show that Goodman adopted Ms Hutchins in October of last year, CBS12.com reported. and#226;and#128;and#152;My reaction was that it was both awful and brilliant,and#226;and#128;and#153; Belray Beach adoption attorney Charlotte Danciu told CBS12.com. The adoption papers state that Hutchins, now a legal child of Goodman, is immediately entitled to at least a third of his trust.* * *Judge Kelley wrote that the events are taking the court and#226;and#128;and#152;into a legal twilight zone.and#226;and#128;and#153;Ms Danciu agreed. and#226;and#128;and#152;Unless you intend to create the parent-child relationship, you are violating the letter of the law,and#226;and#128;and#153; she told CBS12.com.Courts usually disallow the use of adult adoption in this way.  Like lawyer Danciu said, without intending to create a parent-child relationship, it really isn’t an adoption.  That’s the grounds for denying adult adoption in cases involving gay couples looking to legalize their relationship in a world that denies them marriage.So is it incest for Goodman to have sex with his newly-adopted daughter?  According to this gossip site, the Florida incest statute does not mention sex with adopted relatives, only relatives of “lineal consanguity,” which means blood relationship.But Florida’s statute is really in the minority;  a majority of states say it’s incest when there’s sex between ancestors or descendants by blood or adoption. That’s what the Texas Penal Code says.  So I guess my advice to the Goodman pater and fille is to research the laws of all states they visit, and refrain from sex in most of them.  Sigh. That’s not legal advice I ever thought I’d offer to anyone..
WELLINGTON, FL and#226;and#128;” John Goodman, a Florida businessman, has adopted his 42 year old girlfriend as his daughter in a Miami-Dade court.  The action was discovered in the filings of a civil case in Palm Beach County where Goodman is being sued for the wrongful death of a 23 year old man in a February,….

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http://jonathanturley.org/2012/02/01/not-such-a-goodman-florida-millionaire-adopts-girlfriend-to-protect-part-of-estate-after-killing-man-a-driving-drunk-accident/
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