[supercat]

Michael wasn't looking out for Terri's best interests up to the bitter end. That ended sometime before he filed the legal action.

IMHO, Michael should have been deemed to have divorced his wife when he destroyed her wedding rings. He cannot be presumed to have had her interests at heart any time after he admitted in 1993 to having done so.

[Dog Gone]

The law doesn't work that way. There was no way to file a divorce on Terri's behalf, and no way to make Michael file for divorce.

Perhaps that will change in the future, but only if state legislatures carefully craft legislation to make it happen. And it would have to be very carefully drafted in order to avoid unintended consequences in a different factual situation.