Word: voiding
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...estate so completely that everybody involved will be grey before getting a penny. Next to spending money, Dodge's favorite pastime seems to have been writing wills and codicils (at least eleven), and for a finishing touch he provided that the last one would be void if his mother outlived him. Naturally she did, and then led the charge of the litigant brigade. Though Mama is worth $65 million herself, she misses the $10,441,289.42 that she says he borrowed. Muttered his harried lawyer, Douglas Leo Paterson: "I'll bet he's up there now laughing...
...true marriage had ever existed because of an essential flaw in the marital contract-was not easy to get. The Roman Catholic Church believes that marriages blessed in heaven cannot be dissolved on earth, and does not permit divorce. It will agree that some marriages were null and void from the beginning, but such cases are rare. In 1962, the diocesan and regional marital courts of the church around the world probably annulled fewer than 2,000 marriages. The Rota, Rome's final court of appeal for most annulment claims, handled only 124 cases, gave decrees of nullity...
...Ambassador Charles Bohlen was called to the Quai d'Orsay and informed of France's intention. In Washington, dapper French Ambassador Hervé Alphand gave the cold slap to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman. The French government, said Alphand, considered it necessary "to fill the void" left by the Sino-Soviet dispute by accepting "the reality" of China...
When sex is pursued only for pleasure, or only for gain, or even only to fill a void in society or in the soul, it becomes elusive, impersonal, ultimately disappointing. That is what Protestant Theologian Helmut Thielicke has in mind when he warns that "a dethroned god seems to be staging his comeback in a secularized world." Eros is accorded high rank today, "a rank that comes close to the deity it once had." The spiritual danger is that Eros may leave "no room for agape, which lives not by making claims but by giving...
...liver; in Detroit. A career sportsman, Dodge dispensed large chunks of the family fortune for souped-up speedboats and five wives (five children) who consumed more than $2 million in alimony and settlements. Sure to come: a battle royal over Dodge's will, which declares itself "null and void" if he is survived by his mother, now 93. Stakes: $2,000,000 in Dodge's personal funds, and eventually $65 million now in Mamma's name...