Anna Nicole Smith deserves her inheritance

Bunny,You think it was for the good sex?

I don't know the law in this regard. I do know that I had the impression that she won on the basis of her claim that he had verbally promised her money.

Hmmmm - somewhat of a toughie.

I don't think people ought to get money just for marrying someone.

By the same token, I would have thought the nature of the transaction was clear to both parties, and I think one honours one's agreements, dead or alive.

I love it when they imitated her on MadTV, LOL.

Dunno - mebbe he learned something in all those years? Sex isn't just about young bodies and hard penii.

Hey - maybe she was a good partner, too - despite her bubble-headedness - if it ain't just an act.

It is quite clear, as Sozobe and Dlowan have both pointed out, that this is a T&A thread. It was a feeble attempt on the part of kickycan to try to sneak this one by us.

Pay up, kicky.

I'm quite sure he married her for her brains. Both of them.

Pic was too big. But you get the idea.

Yeppers. What's he owe us?

His soul?

His head on a platter?

A night of mad love each?

OK I will embarrass myself and ask what is a T&A thread?

That would be like punishing Michael Jackson by making him live out his life changing diapers.

Ah! au has exposed him/herself as a closet Republican!

Oh, I'm being pimped by dlowan now, eh? Great.

Okay then, mad love it is. I still don't think this is a T&A thread, but hey, if I must make mad monkey love with all of you, then so be it.

Okay, who's first on the Kicky-Go-Round?

<Gus slowly pushes dlowan toward kicky)

Only half?

When it includes Gus, and half the other A2k men?

It's hard to find a site with general laws for all states. The Uniform Probate Code applies. Here's a link: http://www.monstermind.com/John%20C.%20Bost%20Uploaded%202.18.99/Chap04%202002.htm

Go to 2-105 No Taker. Just below that is "Intestate share to surviving spouse". That's the rules for when there is no will or the will is declared invalid. When there's a will, see Figure 4-1 A Decedent's Property Interests.

Here's another site re the Uniform Code, specifically relating to California: http://www.thelawshack.com/UPC.html I'm not sure about ANS's case, but if she and JHM held their property as community property with right of survivorship, that property would not go through probate and therefore would not be a part of the estate at all, so far as I can tell.

Gus first! Gus first!

I'll take one for the team, Soz, if you don't wanna.

Or - Gus can.

<Gus hesitantly walks toward kicky, head hung low, expecting the worse>