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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Right. Enough of these people.
From press reports well after the fact, he was verbally and mentally abusive to her on the campaign trail. Who knows what went on behind closed doors.
The other John Edward could just use his psychic powers to stay in touch.
I was just sitting here thinking about that and then you showed up.
They are very articulate slip and fall lawyers as well, opportunists.
Wow!
Still, given their obfuscations and outright lies, isn’t cynicism warranted here?
There were after all willing to go all the way to the White House, despite his being a cad with his sordid affair.
It isn’t “cruel” to ask a medical question that is relevant to the article and past articles on the person being discussed. Please try to take it as genuine curiosity as to the current state of breast cancer treatment.
The whole subject matter of the article is the specter of her not beating her cancer, and the consequences of that. And her health condition was presented to the world as dire and tragic over three years ago. Hence it is a normal question to wonder about the likelihood of that specter regrettably coming to pass.
I’ll be quite happy to hear that Elizabeth Edwards lives a long life (out of the public limelight), and sticks a shiv into the side of John Edwards for every minute of his miserable life.
This woman is p.o.’d!
And again, she won’t beat it, but however long she lives with it is an individual situation. Please be a little more kind to her, no matter politics or however you personally see her. She has had to take a lot.
Nahhh, she just wants more publicity. That’s probably all this is.
And why not?
Do these celebrities/politicians and their spouses have to spew all their dirty laundry to the media?
Are the Edwards even considering the damage to their children?
It seems as if Tipper & Al Gore are determined not to sink to this level of bitterness......maybe the only time AlGore has handled something with dignity.
It’s great to see a blood sucking ambulance chaser get taken to the cleaners by a blood sucking divorce lawyer, LOL.
I imagine that each cancer situation is different. My brother-in-law was diagnosed with incurable Stage IV cancer in his lungs, liver, and spleen. His doctors estimated he had about six months to live, but he ended up living almost five more years.
Thank you for your response, and you have my condolences on what your mom went through.
John Edwards is too sorry to raise his children, but Elizabeth didn’t think he was too sorry to be president. Go figure!
So, basically I'm learning that a "dire & incurable" cancer diagnosis can indeed mean many years of life, with tough treatment and a fighting attitude. (Plus it buys time for more treatments to come online.)
And indeed, this is what I wish for Elizabeth Edwards.
With “just” cause!
What a scumbag he is!
Thank you for your kind words regarding my mother’s passing. I miss her every day and I would not wish her final months on anyone.
My point was it depends where the cancer comes back. Cancer is staged as to activity found in degree of location to the initial finding. Stage one is a small tumor without lymph node involvement, stage 2 involves lymph nodes in the underarm area. Stage 3 has a larger sized tumor or has spread outward to the chest area. In stage 4 the cancer has spread to other organs of the body — usually the lungs, liver, bone, or brain
4th Stage is terminal barring a miracle. Once it reaches the brain it is definitely so. Chemotherapy drugs do not cross the barrier that surrounds the brain so they do not have any effect there. Radiation of the brain will hopefully slow or even kill what is there, but it is the last resort and if it comes back there is nothing further they can do.
Radiation did eradicate my mother’s brain lesions but it also destroyed her memory, her desire for food and life. It destroyed her mind and left her body to wither.
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