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Polo Founder: Girlfriend Adoption Not Illegal (Adopts 42 Yr Old Girlfriend)
NBC Miami ^ | Thursday, Feb 2, 2012 | Karen Franklin and Brian Hamacher

Posted on 02/02/2012 11:31:18 AM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 02/02/2012 11:31:21 AM PST by nickcarraway
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Maybe he should also be charged with incest.


2 posted on 02/02/2012 11:35:40 AM PST by oblomov
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It’s funny how his lawyer can say it’s to preserve the childrens’ finances, when, if the judge is correct, it actually takes money from them and gives it to the girlfriend/”daughter”, presumably so he can recover it if he loses everything else in the lawsuit.

I’d LMAO if the girlfriend/”daugher” took the money and split.


3 posted on 02/02/2012 11:37:20 AM PST by Wolfie
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Another good liberal tax dodger, pushing his alternative lifestyle


4 posted on 02/02/2012 11:45:34 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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I haven’t heard anything like that since an Amos n Andy episode in which the Kingfish tried to get a couple wanting A child to adopt 43 year old Andy.


5 posted on 02/02/2012 11:54:52 AM PST by Scanian
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He apparently has a lot of trust in her.


6 posted on 02/02/2012 11:55:25 AM PST by nickcarraway
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No elected Judge would ever grant this adoption if he knew all the facts. The adoption should be reversed based on fraud.

The game is still in play..... what if after the money disbursement she files for emancipation and then marries her, Money back free of inheritance tax.


7 posted on 02/02/2012 11:57:07 AM PST by Orange1998
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The Woody Allen Good Parenting Award


8 posted on 02/02/2012 11:59:04 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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OH, but who are WE to say what is a family...

The libtards wanted to define marriage incorrectly, so the billionaire just took their own standard and applied the same principle.

Perhaps they DO have a father-daughter relationship...

9 posted on 02/02/2012 11:59:46 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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Bachi said the trust was set up by Goodman in 1991 with a $1.5 million donation, but has grown in value to several hundred million since then.

http://www.khou.com/news/Court-documents-Houston-millionaire-adopts-adult-girlfriend--138529104.html

His two kids should file their own action against him.

10 posted on 02/02/2012 12:00:39 PM PST by Orange1998
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He apparently has a lot of trust in her.

Or else she read him the riot act.

11 posted on 02/02/2012 12:01:21 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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If I’m reading this correctly, the money in the children’s Trust is untouchable in the civil case. By adopting the 42-year old and giving her 1/3 of the Trust, he’s really only taking money from his children. His assets (those not in the Trust) are up for grabs in the civil suit. I guess his kids could be pissed, but hell, it was his money in the first place.


12 posted on 02/02/2012 12:50:58 PM PST by Wolfie
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I agree, it kind of sounds like what you described, but it makes little sense for him to do that. I think somehow, he must be pushing some of his non-trust assets to his gf.


13 posted on 02/02/2012 12:55:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Gee....do ya think?


14 posted on 02/02/2012 12:56:44 PM PST by Gaffer
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This is just soooooo wrong...I’m gonna hurl!


15 posted on 02/02/2012 12:57:31 PM PST by Gaffer
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"it was his money in the first place."

Not really since he gave the money away, deeming it exempt property from creditors. Maybe his kids are angry at him for whatever reason and refuse to participate in the sham. Thus the girlfriends adoption so he can get his grubby hands on it judgement free.

16 posted on 02/02/2012 12:57:36 PM PST by Orange1998
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Another good liberal tax dodger, pushing his alternative lifestyle

Liberal? Alternative lifestyle? How so?

17 posted on 02/02/2012 12:58:13 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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True, it really doesn’t make sense. Doesn’t buy him anything unless he’s going to transfer assets to his new bunlde of joy. Or maybe there’s no way to get money back from the Trust. Fun stuff, except of course, for the young dead person.


18 posted on 02/02/2012 12:58:43 PM PST by Wolfie
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He must be up to something, because the Trust (if I’m not mistaken) is untouchable as is. “Protecting the minor children’s financial interest” is pure BS. It’s protected already, without doing a thing.


19 posted on 02/02/2012 1:02:36 PM PST by Wolfie
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Okay, first of all, this guy is a total scumbag whose drunk driving took the life of a beautiful young man. He walked away from his Bentley because it would no longer drive and walked down the road where he told a homeowner he had been in an accident but neglected to tell her he sent the young man's car into a canal. Think Ted Kennedy, redux.

Second, this depraved legal maneuvering will not work because the boy's family has already filed suit against him and the court will find that this action is nothing more than an attempt to keep assets from the reach of the plaintiffs. I sincerely hope the judge finds this to be as deplorable an act as I do and as a result, doubles the jury's award.

20 posted on 02/02/2012 1:10:45 PM PST by liberalh8ter (I don't like what the world has become....)
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