Ohio Man Still Legally Dead Despite Reappearing

[EnglishLady]

A man who turned up alive nearly 20 years after he disappeared has been told he cannot have a driving licence because he is still legally dead.

Donald Miller Jr vanished from a town in Ohio in 1986 after he lost his job and turned to alcohol.
He was officially declared dead eight years later, only to resurface in 2005.

"It kind of went further than I ever expected it to," Mr Miller said.
"I just kind of took off and ended up in different places."

The 61-year-old went to court to apply for a driving licence and to have his Social Security number reinstated.

However, his request to reverse the 1994 death ruling was turned down by Judge Allan Davis, who informed him there was a three-year limit for death notices to be repealed.

The judge admitted it was a "strange, strange situation".
"We've got the obvious here - a man sitting in the courtroom who appears to be in good health," he said.

He told Mr Miller: "I don't know where that leaves you, but you're still deceased as far as the law is concerned."

Ohio Man Still Legally Dead Despite Reappearing

 

[tenntrucker]

Tax free!

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[layoutshooter]

A man who turned up alive nearly 20 years after he disappeared has been told he cannot have a driving licence because he is still legally dead.


Let's see, zombies that are US Citizens cannot get a drivers licence but illegal aliens can? What about illegal, undocumented zombies? Can they get a license?

 

[paullud]

Why would there even be a time limit to prove you are alive?

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[zorry]

Why would there even be a time limit to prove you are alive?

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Gummit moves slowly.

 

[pandora2112]

What is the judge afraid he's got lying eyes?

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[Brisco]

Tax free!

Wait til the penalties for not having ObawaCare start taking effect..........

I bet this Administration will resurrect this Dead Person quite quickly...........

 

[EnglishLady]

What about Life Insurance & family (supposition here of course lol)

If the family waited the obligatory, legal, number of years before claiming any Insurance - is the Insurance company entitled to it back when he is pronounced alive again?

 

[layoutshooter]

What about Life Insurance & family (supposition here of course lol)

If the family waited the obligatory, legal, number of years before claiming any Insurance - is the Insurance company entitled to it back when he is pronounced alive again?

They will pay it back about as fast as laid off federal workers pay back their unemployment when they get their back pay.

 

[BobWolf]

Medical professionals often say someone woke up dead when they actually die in their sleep....
This is proof waking up dead is possible.

Bob Wolf

 

[zorry]

Many years around a GM plant proved the dead wake up at quitting time.

At an exhaust shop in Flint one day a guy was in a hurry.
Shop owner said "are you in a hurry to go punch in ?"
Guy replies " No, I got to get back to punch out. My shift ends at 4."

 

[tknight]

Maybe he should become born again and apply when he's 16 for his dl

 

[cheri1122]

What about Life Insurance & family (supposition here of course lol)

If the family waited the obligatory, legal, number of years before claiming any Insurance - is the Insurance company entitled to it back when he is pronounced alive again?

I don't see how, if the family [beneficiaries] were deceived as well.
What I wonder is: does he get exempted from the Obamacare mandate? Cause it could become a popular strategy, lol.

 

[Turtle]

What about Life Insurance & family (supposition here of course lol)

If the family waited the obligatory, legal, number of years before claiming any Insurance - is the Insurance company entitled to it back when he is pronounced alive again?

Donald Eugene Miller Jr. was declared legally dead in 1994, and an Ohio judge said the man’s living, breathing appearance in court won’t change that.

Miller ditched his ex-wife and two daughters in the 1980s and wasn’t seen for years, Judge Allan Davis told the Daily News.

His former spouse, Robin Miller, spent years searching for the father of her children — mostly because he owed tens of thousands of dollars in child support, according to court documents.

It takes five years without contact to qualify as dead under Ohio law.

Robin Miller petitioned the court in early 1994 so her kids could collect the Social Security payout from their father’s demise. Davis signed the papers.

And with that, the deadbeat dad was legally dead.

The date of death was August 1986 — the last time anyone had seen Miller in Arcadia, Ohio.

But there were rumors. Robin Miller had heard her ex-husband’s dad had seen him in Florida. Relatives claimed they’d also seen him in Florida and asked their pastor to write Davis. But it was all second-hand, and nobody ever challenged the ruling in court.

And then Miller returned.

Being dead meant his ex-wife wasn’t chasing him for child support, but it also meant he couldn’t get a driver’s license or Social Security card.

His ex-wife had opposed the move, saying she doesn't have the money to repay the Social Security benefits that were paid out to her and the couple's two children after Miller was declared dead.

Robin Miller said her former husband vanished because he owed big child support payments and that the overdue payments had totaled $26,000 by 1994, The (Findlay) Courier reported.

 

[EnglishLady]

So is she a widow or still married to this 'man'?

 

[Turtle]

So is she a widow or still married to this 'man'?

Neither. They got divorced before he disappeared.

A woman, not his wife, had him declared dead for financial gain. And in doing so, deprived him of his unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Imagine not having to worry about getting a driver's license. Can't arrest a dead man for driving without a license. You could probably just kill him and not be charged with murder, either, since, you know, he's already dead.

Clearly, this is Biblical prophesy - when the dead shall walk the Earth, and all that. This is the end. Mark it on your calendar.

 

[EnglishLady]

Neither. They got divorced before he disappeared.

A woman, not his wife, had him declared dead for financial gain. And in doing so, deprived him of his unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Imagine not having to worry about getting a driver's license. Can't arrest a dead man for driving without a license. You could probably just kill him and not be charged with murder, either, since, you know, he's already dead.

Clearly, this is Biblical prophesy - when the dead shall walk the Earth, and all that. This is the end. Mark it on your calendar.

LOL !

Ok lets go back to the supposition, just because we can ... what if they were married and he disappeared then came back etc etc ...

Would the woman be a widow or married ..... what if she had re-married! Oh My !

Could become a tangled web for sure

 

[Turtle]

If they were still married when he disappeared, and then she had him declared dead, she would be a widow. At that point she could remarry, and collect his life insurance.