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Vivian Pitt Dowers, 75, had been married to Columbia University janitor David Dowers, 65, for more than 30 years when he died of natural causes in their Crown Heights home in February 2011, according to papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
When the widow went through his things, she found, in a briefcase under his bed, divorce papers from 2002 that claimed she had “abandoned” him.
“What you talking about? Me no sign no divorce papers!” Vivian, a native of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, said she exclaimed.
The couple, who had no children, lived together up until his death, she said.
Vivian and her lawyer — Roger Hawke of the Legal Aid Society’s Brooklyn Office for the Aging — sought to throw out the divorce over the opposition of David’s children from an earlier relationship. The children, born before Vivian and David married, stood to inherit their dad’s estate if he was single when he died.
Vivian Pitt Dowers, 75, had been married to Columbia University janitor David Dowers, 65, for more than 30 years when he died of natural causes in their Crown Heights home in February 2011, according to papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
When the widow went through his things, she found, in a briefcase under his bed, divorce papers from 2002 that claimed she had “abandoned” him.
“What you talking about? Me no sign no divorce papers!” Vivian, a native of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, said she exclaimed.
The couple, who had no children, lived together up until his death, she said.
Vivian and her lawyer — Roger Hawke of the Legal Aid Society’s Brooklyn Office for the Aging — sought to throw out the divorce over the opposition of David’s children from an earlier relationship. The children, born before Vivian and David married, stood to inherit their dad’s estate if he was single when he died.
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