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Putting the house in the "girlfriend's" name is a form of marriage. This way the girlfriend can exercise practical control over Schiavo and protect the assets from confiscation by the Schindlers. In reality, Schiavo is a bigamist and a "poor" person under U.S. law so that he can qualify for Medicaid for Terri. The fact that the girlfriend controls his assets is most revealing. Most men with live-in "lovers" have their assets in THEIR names. One of the reasons such men won't marry the "lovers" is that they don't trust the "lovers' with their money! Usually such men have already been divorced (rightly or wrongly from their standpoint) and want to avoid another "splitting" of assets.

What Schiavo is doing is a form of the situation in which welfare "mothers" have live-in "boyfriends" so that they can collect from the state and also get some use of their boyfriends' paychecks.