Perspective
Feb. 16, 2012
Entering the 'legal twilight zone’: a lesson in trust law
A girlfriend adopted as a child to get backdoor access to a children's trust isn't exactly something you see every day. By Stefanie J. Lipson of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP
Forty-eight year old Florida billionaire John Goodman (owner of the International Polo Club Palm Beach, not Roseanne's TV husband) recently shocked courts and bloggers alike with the headline-grabbing adoption of his 42-year-old girlfriend, Heather Hutchins, making Hutchins his eldest (and creepiest) of three children. But if this doesn't give you the heebie-jeebies, here's betting the reason he did so will.
Goodman is...
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