I wonder how long Barbara Bush will remain quiet about KK's book when she finds out that her husband is accused of sexually abusing minor children and her son is accused of use coke at Camp David some years after he quit drinking cold turkey and found the Lord. Also, isn't Barbara herself basically called a witch? Me thinks Kitty has just falsely attacked the wrong woman and her family!
It requires her and her children to move out of their longtime home so it can be sold. Of what's left after lawyers and bills are paid, Sharon gets 75 percent. She also is getting alimony, about $30,000 a year, but that ends after four years when all her children are 18.
Sharon says that what she really wanted for her children was a little more time. In a letter, she says, she appealed to George Sr., whom she affectionately called "Gampy," for help, asking him to help her stay in the house with the children for just another four years.
"It would give me the opportunity to raise my children in the house that they have grown accustomed to and lived in for the last 10 years," she says.
George Sr. declined to comment to the CBS affiliate. But Sharon says in an email back to her, the former president said that he couldn't go against Neil's wishes, and the court had already ordered that the house be sold to pay the couple's debts.
He wrote, "I do believe the kids would happily adjust to a new house, even if it is not as grand as the one you are now living in." He also told her to "forget the past with Neil…find a job, and look to the future not the past."
He is helping provide her another house, but only to stay in while her children are still living with her. In five years, she'll have to pay the bills herself or move.
So this stay-at-home mom is preparing to look for a job. The former teacher says, “Not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined it, or I would have prepared myself more.”
Neil Bush again would not comment to the CBS affiliate, but in e-mails last year to his wife, he expressed concern for her welfare, saying, "My goal continues to be to work with you to get you settled."
His attorney describes that settlement as both "fair and generous."But Sharon Bush's attorneys say bills and legal fees may consume much of her savings. All in all, she says, it's not what she expected out of a life lived with the Bush family.
She says, “I thought for sure, I mean, I believed the family values, and I lived the family values."
Some lawyers told CBS News that some of the terms of the agreement are more favorable than required by Texas law, including the child support being paid by Neil Bush: $1,500 a month for the two minor children until they turn 18.
this is from July 2003.
Barbara is not going to take this laying down, and Laura will probably go ballistic. I wonder if KK has good lawyers. she's going to need them.