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...decathlete nods in the direction of two young children playing in Gordon Track’s long jump sand pit. I cringe, expecting the derision of an Olympian accustomed to pristine facilities, but instead he explains...
...divorcing while dying - or at least facing down death - just one of those inexplicable things famous people do, like releasing a signature scent or giving their children embarrassing names? Why would anyone go through it, considering the irreconcilable differences they already have with their mortality...
...health news is often a catalyst in a marriage. Those on their way to splitsville take a shortcut; those in (relative) harmony draw even closer. Those whose children do not like the new spouse hear more about it - and about the will. For these reasons, marital and estate-planning lawyers say, deathbed divorce is not as uncommon as you might think. (See pictures of famously unmarried couples...
...pretty much the only person you can't cut out of a will," says Wynne Whitman, an estate-planning lawyer in New Jersey. Although the law differs from state to state, attorneys say statutes and courts tend to favor surviving spouses in determining inheritances, especially if there are minor children. (The Hoppers have a 6-year-old.) The court might even posthumously change a prenuptial agreement, which the Hoppers also have and which Victoria Hopper is challenging...
...multiple marrier, like Hopper, making a will seem fair to all family members is particularly tricky. Adult offspring - there are three grown Hopper children - may try to pre-empt an estate battle by taking care of business before the funeral. "It's very common when we have couples marry later in life and one party develops an illness, the adult children will precipitate the initiation of divorce proceedings," says Joseph Cordell, a domestic-litigation attorney in Michigan. "They distrust the new spouse." Lest we forget, Anna Nicole Smith's fight for a share of her nonagenarian husband's estate went...