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Posted on 06/02/2010 3:35:55 PM PDT by Fight4Freedom1
(CBS) Updated: 6:30 PM, June 1: In an email to MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell, Elizabeth Edwards stated that she is not trying to deny John Edwards custody of their two younger children in the event of her death.
Elizabeth Edwards reportedly doesn't want her estranged husband, former presidential hopeful John Edwards, to raise their kids if she loses her battle with cancer.
But can a mother legally keep an estranged spouse from getting custody in that kind of situation?
The New York Daily News reported that Elizabeth is looking into whether the couple's 28-year-old daughter, Cate, can assume legal guardianship over their two youngest children, Jack and Emma. The newspaper reports that, if she dies from the breast cancer she's fighting, she doesn't want them raised by John.
Elizabeth's sister told the paper: "There a lot of family members who are willing and able" to take care of 10-year-old Jack and Emma, now 12.
Since Elizabeth announced her cancer had returned, John has admitted having an affair with his former campaign videographer, Rielle Hunter. He's also acknowledged he is the father of Hunter's now-2-year-old daughter.
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If the kids are twelve years old they can pretty much decide who they want to raise them the final years....this is just a vindictive ploy from a very bitter woman trying to drive a wedge between the children and their father. Nothing new here....it happens in just about every divorce...whether the woman or man is “at fault”. If this doesn’t work she will probably accuse John or “molesting” the children. Its a ploy that’s worked in quite a few divorces...or she can slam a door into her eye and say John hit her and is abusive....the list goes on.
Poppycock.. She is a vengeful bitch, and much worse behaved "estranged" husbands than him have been awarded custody after bitter divorces. She is the nastiest POS this side of Fat Heaven, and if I were him I'd fight that attention cow to the end.
Who’s Michelle? LOL.
I MEAN go Elizabeth!
Oh, that is TOO funny since I actually know someone IRL named Michelle Edwards! Oops!
bitter much?
Why not? You dont think he loves his kids and can afford to take care of them?
Since when do you have to be perfect to raise your own children?! For God's sake, once she's dead, she's dead. Stop trying to punish people forever, fatso Elizabeth.
I don’t know what motivated her. I’ll guess she still wants to subject the public to their tawdry dealings and wants to keep the press on her side. I’m going to try my best to ignore their entire family. They’re all sickening.
OH, LOL. That explains it then!
If every adulterer was excluded from custody rights, thered be a ton of orphans running around town. Im still married to my first wife and raised 4 kids, but I cant stand vengeful , sadistic , bitter ex-wives. I find them very unpleasant.
Me either. There’s a reason it’s called a “private life”. She’s already exploited her cancer enough for me as it is.
Not bitter (I got joint and then full custody of my son)...but angry for all the fathers out there who truely get f@@@@@ over in divorce/custody battles by mean, vindictive and spiteful women who mask those emotions as “concern” for their children...
Ensuring that your children are cared for by the best person after your impending death makes you vengeful, sadistic, and bitter?
Sorry, he lost his good father status when he fathered another child by someone who was not his wife.
Bitter ex-wives are tabloid trash.
Schadenfreude indeed! I hope all the fat women hating, cancer patient hating, posters who are so violently bashing Ms. Edwards with their scathing opinions feel bigger and better now.
I don’t think I’ve heard anything so hateful since......hmmm, maybe junior high. Out of here.
“Stop trying to punish people forever, fatso Elizabeth.”
Oh, you are not a misogynist, you just hate fat women.
“Since when do you have to be perfect to raise your own children?!”
You don’t have to be perfect, but not having sex with a much younger woman and producing a baby while your wife is battling cancer means you are a little more than “not perfect”.
It means you are a slimy, egocentric jerk that didn’t care enough about his kids in the first place to keep it in his pants until his terminally ill wife passed away.
My mother’s final battle ended in Jan after a 3 year struggle. She was initially diagnosed 25 years ago and fought it on and off all that time. She had been cancer free for 12 years when it returened the last time. When found to be active again it was in her bones and lungs. She fought that and was doing well until it was discovered in her brain. She received full brain radiation which destroyed her. When she died she was cancer free. It was a terrible thing to watch her just fade away due to the radiation’s destruction of her brain. I would not wish what she went through on my worst enemy.
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