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42 sats \ 6 replies \ @Cje95 11 Apr 2024 \ on: O. J. Simpson Dies from Cancer at 76 - Fox News Photography
Its criminal how he never paid his civil penalty fine for those murders. Even though he wasn't convicted he did lose the civil case and was ordered to pay $33 mil which grew to $96 mil yet he was able to live a nice lux life after jail for the kidnapping case.
Did they change those laws? Pensions are pretty well protected contracts.
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So from my recollection, his pension was shown time and time again to not cover his expenses. After the judgment against him as well he was able to create some trusts and other vehicles to protect the money but it shouldn't have been allowed because of the already issued judgment. Now that he has passed it will be interesting to see what they can get out of his estate because he wont be able to claim he needs to money to survive/live his life.
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What do you mean shouldn't have been allowed? That sounds moral, not legal.
As to the estate, if they managed things in life so in his favor don't you think they planned well for the estate postmortem?
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No, it is actually legal the court system is not supposed to allow people who have had judgments issued against them to then move their assets into a trust so it isn't touched! Also, a ton of legal protections expire when the person the estate is for dies and so much more is available to pay restitution to the families.
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But trusts live on. It is why he set up trusts. The ones you say are illegal.
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It is likely that because the judgment was still against him, the Goldman family will be able to lay claim to any physical assets of his which there will be plenty of. From there it is highly likely that the Simpson family will reach an agreement with the Goldman's over the value of things to pay off the judgment. Not to mention any sort of retirement account he might have had that would have been passed on to his kids would be subject to seizure as well.
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