Posted on 12/06/2023 8:20:56 AM PST by george76
The grieving groom whose bride was killed by an accused drunk driver on their wedding night is now embroiled in a bitter fight over her estate with his mother-in-law — who is even challenging the validity of the marriage.
Aric Hutchinson had assumed control of Samantha Miller’s estate after his 34-year-old bride was killed in April when their golf cart was rear-ended as they left their wedding reception in South Carolina, leaving him also needing multiple surgeries for broken bones.
But the dead bride’s mom, Lisa Miller, has filed a petition to remove him as the personal representative, citing “issues of potential fraud” — suggesting his marriage to her daughter could be invalid..
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Aric has been more than generous with Lisa Miller — offering her half of the money — and she has repaid him by threatening to bring a frivolous challenge to the validity of his marriage to Sam
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He has offered his mother-in-law half of any recovery in the wrongful death suit on the condition that she stop pursuing legal challenges to their marriage.
“Aric has made this settlement offer not because Lisa Miller had a valid legal claim — she does not — but rather because he is a generous person and, of course, would prefer to avoid painful, public litigation over the validity of his marriage to Sam,” Wooten said.
Hutchinson and Miller were married in Folly Beach on April 28, and a Charleston County probate judge recognized the validity of their marriage on May 1 —
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The driver, Jamie Lee Komoroski, was charged with reckless vehicular homicide and three counts of felony driving under the influence.
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Under a settlement reached in October, Progressive Northern Insurance Co. and two local bars that served a tipsy Komoroski agreed to pay an undisclosed amount
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I suspect she did like him. But after her daughter died, she realized she lost a daughter, and the groom was going to get all her money after only a few hours of marriage.
That’s not what I stated.
He won the lotto not having to deal with the drama that would be brought upon him between his wife and MIL.
LOL
That’s to be expected, but just reading what his vindictive former MIL is doing to him throughout all this should give him some sort of indication that he was in for a rocky road with her meddling ways.
Contentious in-laws always cause marital strains.
One of my friends had a tragedy happen to him with his first wife dying unexpectedly a few years back. They had 3 children together.
The incessant demands from his former in-laws caused him to move 150 miles further away from them and pretty much cease that relationship.
how do you know what they did in the golf cart before the accident? :)
later
The one on the left has been around the block a few times.
Exactly, we seem to be in club with 2 members who see it from this prospective. Everybody is slamming her mother but there is another way to look at it.
Exactly. They weren't even married a whole day.
The NY Post article explains:
The bride was killed in the accident on April 28. Three days later, on May 1, while the groom was recovering in the hospital, his aunt and uncle brought the signed marriage license and certificate to a probate court and filled out forms. On one form, the aunt wrote that the bride and groom lived together after the marriage (which is a lie because the bride died at her wedding).
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