Florida law makes it nearly impossible for Michael to divorce Terri.
A little voice in my head keeps asking "Why is it always Florida?". Is it my imagination, or does this state's legal system have a striking propensity for generating huge fiascoes? During the 2002 election mess, there seemed to be all sorts of vagueness in Florida law with regard to elections, and utter confusion among the state courts as to what to do (and this only a couple of years after a big mess in which an elected official -- mayor of Miami -- had been hauled back out of office after being sworn in, due to a similar election-law fiasco). And only a few months ago, the fallout from that was still underway, with Gov. Bush having to intervene directly in order to get a blatantly incompetent and dishonest election supervisor removed from office (Dade County, IIRC), after all regular legal channels had faile to accomplish what basically everybody recognized needed to be done. And Florida's child protective services system seems to be a standout as well, with multiple high profile failures being followed by officials having their hands legally tied, with regards to efforts to remedy the situation and fire the responsible workers.