Gimme my kidney back or gimme $1.5 million!!

[tpsbmam]

Husband wants kidney back in divorce -- or at least $1.5 million

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - When his wife needed a kidney transplant, Dr. Richard Batista gave her one of his, attorney Dominic Barbara said.

Now that Dawnell Batista has filed for a divorce, Richard Batista wants his kidney back as part of his settlement demand. Or, Barbara said Wednesday, his client wants the value of that kidney: An estimated $1.5 million.

The case is being heard in Supreme Court in Mineola, N.Y.

Barbara said his client, a 49-year-old doctor from Ronkonkoma who graduated Cornell University Medical School in 1995, married Dawnell Batista on Aug. 31, 1990. The couple had three children, now ages 14, 11 and 8.

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Richard Batista said his marriage at the time was on the rocks because of the strain of his wife's medical issues.

"My first priority was to save her life," Batista said at a news conference in Garden City. "The second bonus was to turn the marriage around."

Dawnell Batista, 44, of Massapequa, filed for divorce in July 2005, Barbara said.

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Please tell me where I can contact this doc -- I'm in the market for a good doc. :sarcasm:

[MajorChode]

1. This could set a dangerous precedent for wives with fake boobs

Can you say, "visitation rights"?

[SpiralHawk]

4. LOL

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I have a feeling it's divorce posturing. She probably asked for her share

of his medical license and to counter it, he asked for the cash equivalent of his kidney.

Public policy would forbid making a spouse remain unhappily married indefinitely ('til death do us part) in exchange for receiving an internal organ.

[Lex]

3. it was a gift

so tough luck

how idiotic

[Fumesucker]

5. Really, give someone the gift of life and then they turn around and try to screw you.

It can certainly be seen that way, I don't know all the facts so I can't say one way or another.