And to think certain Americans are freaking out about what’ll happen to marriage if the gays get involved!
Polo Tycoon Cannot Adopt Girlfriend
A Miami appeals court Wednesday reversed a ruling that allowed Florida polo tycoon John Goodman to adopt his longtime adult girlfriend.
Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals Senior Judge Alan R. Schwartz wrote that the adoption of a “paramour” or lover was “so contrary to the beneficent purposes of such an action” that it could not be confirmed by the court, according to court documents.
Goodman, a 49-year-old multimillionaire who founded the International Polo Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., made headlines when he adopted his girlfriend, Heather Hutchins, 42, in an attempt to preserve part of his fortune for her while negotiating a civil suit settlement.
Carroll Goodman, John Goodman’s ex-wife and the mother of their two children, filed the appeal, according to court records. Attorneys for Goodman and his ex-wife could not immediately be reached for comment.
In 2011, a trial court in Palm Beach County approved the adoption. As a result, Hutchins was recognized as another one of Goodman’s “children” under the trust fund that had been set up by him and Carroll Goodman for their biological children in 1991.
I’ve got only four words to say about that: I’m My Own Grandpa. (For further reading, see Wiki.)