did you see the parade magazine inside of the paper today

[ghettozoe03]

in the question and answer thing it had a little article on brooke and jeff. this is not meant to be a brooke bash but man i didnt know that she was after his life insurance policy of 10.2 million dollars



i quote" the four time winston cup champ claimed that he earned "only" 13.6 million in 2001; his ex-beauty queen wife, brooke, 32, said he made 18.6 million. She is also wants to remain beneficiary of his 10.2 million dollars life insurance policy. (Gordon, 31, named his mother instead) And they're haggling over a mansion and a second home, business asstets, boats and 17 cars. To hear these tell it, you would think there wasnt nough to go around.

 

[PenskeGirl]

Getting one of the homes and some of the cars, I can see if they were purchased during the marriage, but how could she possibly think that she is entitled to an insurance policy of a man that she's no longer married too ??? What if he was to get remarried? "Sorry honey, if I die Brooke gets all the money,not you and our kids". C'mon, this has got to end somewhere. Could someone please tell me a LOGICAL reason for her to think that she's entitled to this, because I can't for the life of me think of one myself.

 

[majestyx]

This is a response that I received to the same question:
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As posted by 71fan (thread - Not another Miss Winston):

When a person makes a promise imo that person has a MORAL obligation to fulfill that promise.

As far as the life insurance thing goes, The policy itself is community property. Community property whose division (once the papers were filed) could not be disposed of or altered by either party without the permission of the other.

Should Brooke have a right to have the policy?

If that policy was bought with community assets she has a right to half of it. And if Jeff want to trade something of equal value away for Brooke's half, I'm certain she'll oblige. But Jeff imo did not have the legal right to change the policy once the divorce papers were filed.


Last edited by 71Fan on 10-20-02 at 04:30 PM

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I do not understand how a life insurance policy could or would for that matter, be considered community property. Jeff and Brooke were only married for 7 years, and Jeff has driven WC for 10. Did he drive for the first 3 years without a life insurance policy? I think NOT!