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To: Gondring

You're the one who did not acknowledge my point that a devoted spouse's willingness to care for an incapacitated spouse may change over the years. I thought that was a crucial point. You ignored it. And, I still think it is a crucial point, that a spouse's desires for a new spouse may alter the situation and necessitate a change of legal guardianship, while a parents' desire to care for their incapacitated adult child may be less likely to change, since they are not trading in this child for a new child.


258 posted on 07/11/2005 5:36:55 AM PDT by summer
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To: summer; patriciaruth
And, I still think it is a crucial point, that a spouse's desires for a new spouse may alter the situation and necessitate a change of legal guardianship, while a parents' desire to care for their incapacitated adult child may be less likely to change, since they are not trading in this child for a new child.

Have you considered that if you pass this law, you are putting a Divorce of Damocles over every marriage? Where a woman has a choice of carrying out her husband's wishes (at risk of her in-laws fighting her) or not...which would she be inclined to do? Your law points the incentives away from respecting a patient's wishes, not toward it. Bad laws with incorrectly oriented incentives lead to bad outcomes and unexpected consequences...though in this case, I can take a stab at the consequences and they aren't pretty.

So...how about children, possibly wishing for inheritance? Do you allow them to send in the divorce stormtroopers?

266 posted on 07/11/2005 4:01:52 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: summer

"You're the one who did not acknowledge my point that a devoted spouse's willingness to care for an incapacitated spouse may change over the years. I thought that was a crucial point."

I believe that the Schindlers had her in their home about 10 years ago for a little while and found they could not handle the amount of care she needed - so they sent her back. I don't believe they have gotten any younger since then.


271 posted on 07/12/2005 6:32:39 AM PDT by RS (Just because they are out to get him, it doesn't mean he's not guilty.)
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