Man wants estranged wife to pay for kidney

[sweeps]

A New York doctor is demanding that his estranged wife pay him $1.5 million to compensate him for the kidney he gave her while they were still on good terms.

MSNBC article

[jIM_Ohio]

If I am married and my wife drives to abuse alcohol prior to a divorce (to drown the pain), can I charge her for the kidney transpant as well?

[simpleyme]

one has to wonder why she divorced this guy?

[pearlieq]

one has to wonder why she divorced this guy?

I know!

Good luck with that, buddy...

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

"A message left for his wife's attorney, Douglas Rothkopf, was not immediately returned."

So is it the wife's lawyer, the wife, the husband, or the husband's lawyer who has turned this interesting tidbit over to the press? If the lawyer has not even answered the message yet, this certainly has not been presented to a judge yet. In which case it is not in the public record, and someone is hoping to manipulate the press.

To start with, selling organs is not legal in the US. Besides that, a gift is a gift. You can give me your jack-in-the box prize or you can give me your kidney; once freely given, I believe Miss Manners would agree, that it is not mannerly to demand payment.