Judge tells living man that he’s still legally dead

[Iormlund]

That's another interesting question. Stake through the heart?

[lustindarkness]

Beheading.

[DGuller]

We can try both.

[mongers]

He should try and exploit the situation, commit a crime or two and see how quickly the bureaucracy changes its 'mind'.

[Neil]

Wouldn't it make more sense to have the judge and all the lawyers involved executed, and then just declare him to be alive through force of arms?  That's the only way you'll ever really get any justice.

[Ed Anger]

I bet she nagged him to death.

[OttoVonBismarck]

I don't really see the man as all that blameworthy for not paying child support nor do I see the woman that blameworthy for realizing some eight years later after he'd been dead to the world that maybe she could file for some social security survivor benefits and get some small amount of money for her children. The guy was obviously an extreme alcoholic, while people should always pay their child support the fact is someone like that is simply unable to do so. Someone that far into addiction simply can't work, and they are probably living in abject squalor themselves--so they are not at all akin to the deadbeat dads who work and make their baby mommas go through all the hoops just to squeeze a meager amount out of them while they live fairly comfortably.

I don't see how the woman would have been likely to know he was or wasn't dead, he disappeared from the face of the Earth and they had no ongoing relationship. That's precisely why the statute exists for declaring someone dead after they've gone totally missing for a certain number of years.

[mongers]

I don't really see the man as all that blameworthy for not paying child support nor do I see the woman that blameworthy for realizing some eight years later after he'd been dead to the world that maybe she could file for some social security survivor benefits and get some small amount of money for her children. The guy was obviously an extreme alcoholic, while people should always pay their child support the fact is someone like that is simply unable to do so. Someone that far into addiction simply can't work, and they are probably living in abject squalor themselves--so they are not at all akin to the deadbeat dads who work and make their baby mommas go through all the hoops just to squeeze a meager amount out of them while they live fairly comfortably.

I don't see how the woman would have been likely to know he was or wasn't dead, he disappeared from the face of the Earth and they had no ongoing relationship. That's precisely why the statute exists for declaring someone dead after they've gone totally missing for a certain number of years.

There's something to be said for this argument, plus I think the children probably benefited from not having an alcoholic father in their family life.

[garbon]

Otto sympathetic for the drunks.

[Sheilbh]

The fact that he's just turned up alive is going to completely screw her over. She'd owe tens of thousands to the government if he was declared alive. I can understand not wanting that to happen.

Surely not if she really believed it and tried to find out where he was?

[Neil]

Otto sympathetic for the drunks.

Die, fag.

[garbon]

Otto sympathetic for the drunks.

Die, fag.

I'm sure that I'll oblige you eventually.

[Neil]

Well, that's something to look forward to.

[garbon]

Assuming you are still alive.

[DGuller]

Assuming you are still alive.

You may just have given him a reason to live.