In the probate litigation system, there are two separate yet equally important parties: the second wife (who usually inherits the decedent's property), and the children of a prior marriage (who sue her). This is their story. [Clank! Clank!]
I should really apologize for that intro, but felt compelled to do it because my wife is a HUGE Jerry Orbach fan. He's up there with Richard Farnsworth (my wife either doesn't get crushes on young, good-looking actors, or she doesn't tell me about those crushes).
Anywho, Jerry Orbach's son is stirring things up via a letter he wrote to his step-mom, which "somehow" became public. The story is here. I don't think the son comes off looking too great here. From a PR perspective, it's hard to make the surviving spouse look evil because she assisted in organ donation. However, the horror movie fan in me does like the grisly imagery of a dead person having their eyes "shucked out" (I thought the verb "shucked" could only be used for oysters, but maybe it applies to the removal of any slimy thing from where it resides?).
