Only in California: no-fault divorce codes and a hitman!!??

A husband has a hit put out on him by his wife and her thugs, doesn’t do well in court so who do ya call?  Sacramento!  Arguments are now being heard to amend divorce law so that spouses who solicit murder of their other half are not entitled to collect financial rewards when their marriage officially hits the skids.  Now that sounds fair.  Please, only in California.  John Pomroy, a police detective from Pomona, is the man behind the proposed bill.  His wife was convicted of trying to murder her hubby and when she crawled out of prison she was awarded $70,000 from the couple’s estate.  John thinks California’s no-fault divorce code is even more whacked than his wife who tried to bump her ex off because she had lost custody of the kids.  If this story made it to the big screen in the 40s Joan Crawford would have been a shoe-in for the mom on a mission for murder and mayhem.  John says people don’t get squat from the insurance company when they commit arson so why should they rake it in when try to kill someone? Get this little doozie of a loop hole. State law says if spouses are convicted of murdering or attempting to murder their husband or wife, they can not collect moolah during divorce proceedings. But if they hire someone else to do the job, their victims’ assets are not protected. John is hoping the new law will be less giving to husbands or wives who solicit the murder of their spouse. Democratic Assemblyman Marty Block who is helping John introduce the bill tells the Associated Press, “It’s just a glaring case where California law as it is now can reward someone who plans vicious murder.  In a way, the current law rewards the spouse for committing this kind of crime against the person they’re married to or in the process of divorcing.”  Krystal Callaway Jaime, supervising attorney for the Family Protection Clinic at the University of California, Davis says most states don’t let the nutbag spouses walk away with nice settlements.  Well, California surely loves its nuts.  I digress.  Jaime is supporting Pomroy and says this kinda thing may seem obscure but…hits happen.  Pomroy says his marriage started going south when his wife became addicted to pain killers after injuring her foot in a dirt bike accident.  OK – now it sounds less Joan Crawford and more Angelina Jolie or Lindsay Lohan.  Pain killers and dirt bikes are right up their alleys.  Naturally more drugs and alcohol abuse followed the pain killers.  OK, definitely Lindsay Lohan – all the way, 200 percent.  When his wife faced losing the kids and the cash, she turned to the Vagos motorcycle gang to see if they could do John in. The plan backfired, police stepped in and set her up.  She did time at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla from February 2003 until she was paroled in March 2004. She returned to prison twice since then and is currently on parole.  It’s a living.   Pomroy still fears for his life and says he won’t get any money but he does hope he can “prevent some poor sap in the future…from losing his assets to somebody trying to kill him.”  Amen to that. — by: Charlie Reeves