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==Role of The Husband: Michael Schiavo==

==Role of The Husband: Michael Schiavo==

While still married to Terri, Michael Schiavo [[adultery|started a new family with another woman]], whom he eventually married after Terri's death, while insisting on retaining legal authority over Terri despite the objections of her parents and siblings.<ref>[http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/26/Tampabay/She_s_the_other_woman.shtml]</ref> Generally, in the absence of an advanced directive, health care decisions are authorized to be made by surrogates in the following order: (1) the spouse, unless legally separated; (2) an adult child; (3) a parent; or (4) an adult brother or sister.<ref>http://www.uniformlaws.org/shared/docs/health%20care%20decisions/uhcda_final_93.pdf</ref> Michael Schiavo had the legal authority to make the health care decision, but he had to show by clear and convincing evidence that Theresa Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state and that Theresa would elect to cease life-prolonging procedures if she were competent to make her own decision.<ref>''Bush v. Schiavo'', 885 So. 2d 321 (Fla. 2004).</ref> After ten years in a persistent vegetative state that robbed Theresa Schiavo of most of her cerebrum and all but the most instinctive of neurological functions, Michael Schiavo petitioned the Guardianship Court to authorize the termination of life-prolonging procedures.<ref>''Schiavo I'', 780 So. 2d at 177 (Fla. 2001).</ref>

While still married to Terri, Michael Schiavo [[adultery|started a new family with another woman]], whom he eventually married after Terri's death, while insisting on retaining legal authority over Terri despite the objections of her parents and siblings.<ref>[http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/26/Tampabay/She_s_the_other_woman.shtml]</ref> Generally, in the absence of an advanced directive, health care decisions are authorized to be made by surrogates in the following order: (1) the spouse, unless legally separated; (2) an adult child; (3) a parent; or (4) an adult brother or sister.<ref>http://www.uniformlaws.org/shared/docs/health%20care%20decisions/uhcda_final_93.pdf</ref> Michael Schiavo had the legal authority to make the health care decision, but he had to show by clear and convincing evidence that Theresa Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state and that Theresa would elect to cease life-prolonging procedures if she were competent to make her own decision.<ref>''Bush v. Schiavo'', 885 So. 2d 321 (Fla. 2004).</ref> After eight years in a persistent vegetative state that robbed Theresa Schiavo of most of her cerebrum and all but the most instinctive of neurological functions, Michael Schiavo petitioned the Guardianship Court to authorize the termination of life-prolonging procedures.<ref>''Schiavo I'', 780 So. 2d at 177 (Fla. 2001).</ref>

==Legal dispute==

==Legal dispute==