Alcohol_IV
02-02-2007, 10:00 PM
Mad dad vows fight: Divorce court orders quadriplegic evicted from childhood home (http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=180582&srvc=art)
Through childhood, fatherhood and the devasting cycling accident three years ago that left him quadriplegic, Daniel Iagatta III has only ever known one home.
With Norfolk Probate Court evicting him from 126 Beach St. in Foxboro, and demanding the sale of the house he was born in, Iagatta is girding up to move to new digs on Feb. 9: a purple cardboard box with a skylight.
It’s all the result of an ugly divorce, and a settlement Iagatta says he can’t afford to pay. But and before he gives an inch to authorities, Iagatta, 43 - a religious education teacher whose plumbing business went down the drain when he lost the use of his limbs - said he’ll surround his property with a human chain. Actually, a superhuman chain; supporters, some of whom plan to dress up in superhero costumes, are massing to come to his rescue.
“They’re literally going to have to drag me out of here,” threatened Iagatta, whose ex-wife Michelle Iagatta, 39, a nurse at Norwood Hospital, has custody of their two sons, ages 13 and 10.
Michelle Iagatta’s attorney, Patricia Gorman, said, “He (Iagatta) told her from the very beginning she would get nothing. This is not just about a man in a chair. There’s another person here.”
Iagatta, whose 12-year marriage was declared over July 7 by Judge Beverly Weinger Boorstein, has appealed to both U.S. District Court and the Supreme Judicial Court to intervene to no avail.
Iagatta said his marriage ended after he was hit by a car while riding a bicycle and training for a triathlon in 2004. The divorce judgment specifies he cover his ex-wife’s legal fees. He was also ordered to pay her $127,000 by Aug. 31 for property division, either by buying out her share of the house Iagatta said they bought from his mother or by selling it outright. None of that has happened. The mortgage is in arrears and Iagatta is hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and he’s been declared in contempt by Boorstein.
“He’s got strong beliefs in God and I think that’s what keeps him going,” said neighbor Maria Eisenhauer, a fellow parishioner at St. Mary’s Church in Foxboro. “The sad part is he could become a viable part of society, but not if they remove him from here.”
For her part, Michelle Iagatta must pay her ex $100 a week in alimony so long as they both shall live, or until he remarries. Gorman said, “She’s been sending him a check every week. He has not cashed one. She would just like to be able to get the money (from the house) so she and the boys can move on.”
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I'm never getting married. What a whore.
Through childhood, fatherhood and the devasting cycling accident three years ago that left him quadriplegic, Daniel Iagatta III has only ever known one home.
With Norfolk Probate Court evicting him from 126 Beach St. in Foxboro, and demanding the sale of the house he was born in, Iagatta is girding up to move to new digs on Feb. 9: a purple cardboard box with a skylight.
It’s all the result of an ugly divorce, and a settlement Iagatta says he can’t afford to pay. But and before he gives an inch to authorities, Iagatta, 43 - a religious education teacher whose plumbing business went down the drain when he lost the use of his limbs - said he’ll surround his property with a human chain. Actually, a superhuman chain; supporters, some of whom plan to dress up in superhero costumes, are massing to come to his rescue.
“They’re literally going to have to drag me out of here,” threatened Iagatta, whose ex-wife Michelle Iagatta, 39, a nurse at Norwood Hospital, has custody of their two sons, ages 13 and 10.
Michelle Iagatta’s attorney, Patricia Gorman, said, “He (Iagatta) told her from the very beginning she would get nothing. This is not just about a man in a chair. There’s another person here.”
Iagatta, whose 12-year marriage was declared over July 7 by Judge Beverly Weinger Boorstein, has appealed to both U.S. District Court and the Supreme Judicial Court to intervene to no avail.
Iagatta said his marriage ended after he was hit by a car while riding a bicycle and training for a triathlon in 2004. The divorce judgment specifies he cover his ex-wife’s legal fees. He was also ordered to pay her $127,000 by Aug. 31 for property division, either by buying out her share of the house Iagatta said they bought from his mother or by selling it outright. None of that has happened. The mortgage is in arrears and Iagatta is hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and he’s been declared in contempt by Boorstein.
“He’s got strong beliefs in God and I think that’s what keeps him going,” said neighbor Maria Eisenhauer, a fellow parishioner at St. Mary’s Church in Foxboro. “The sad part is he could become a viable part of society, but not if they remove him from here.”
For her part, Michelle Iagatta must pay her ex $100 a week in alimony so long as they both shall live, or until he remarries. Gorman said, “She’s been sending him a check every week. He has not cashed one. She would just like to be able to get the money (from the house) so she and the boys can move on.”
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I'm never getting married. What a whore.