Elder Law
Exploitation or Love? Son Seeks Divorce for Dad, 87
Posted Nov 17, 2008, 01:18 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Although Claude Thomas and Susana Martinez Ramirez married in 2001, it wasn't until several years afterward that his children realized their father had a wife.
Even when Keith Thomas built two homes—one for his dad and one for himself—next to the shop where they worked together, selling hydraulics components, he saw nothing to make him suspect his widowed dad had remarried. That is, until he heard from his father's banker that an account was overdrawn, reports the Dallas Morning News.
Now he is seeking an Ellis County divorce on his father's behalf, along with a guardianship, contending that Ramirez, 45, is financially exploiting Claude Thomas. Such cases are on the rise, says Terry Hammond of the… Continue reading...
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