I dont see why Jerry couldnt work out a deal with her. A new NDA. He take the test and she receive money but not be allowed to talk about it if thats what Jerry wants. Unless she is asking for the ranch in exchange for the NDA or if Jerry knows that this will open the door for her to take the estate to the bank.
I agree that the kid is strong and noble if she is willing to forgo money AND NOT SUE IN THE FUTURE in exchange for paternity test. But...and Im not trying to defend Jerry here...why does she want to disrupt this guys life now? Sounds like its laying groundwork for future lawsuit, asking too much in exchange for an NDA or Jerry refusing the test. I still dont know why a test cant be done and all this be done in private behind the scenes?
It seems to come back to money. Someone is being unreasonable.
It's very likely about money, but as I've stated before, it doesn't have to be. There are a few other reasons that it could be about. At this stage we don't know. We know she is/was a Congressional aid. That's established fact...so she has some interest in politics. If she ran for office this would have come to light and possible ended up violating the NDA.
That's just speculation but is one valid reason she might be doing it for something other than money. Do I believe that? I'm choosing a wait and see before just assuming her motivations.
However, you keep saying you're not defending Jerry but in the same breath defending him high and low all through the thread. You even implied that everyone would have been better off had the mother gotten an abortion. I doubt that Alex would agree that she would be better of had her life been terminated in the womb.
You stated Jerry was trapped by this woman. That's where it gets murky because she claims he told her he wasn't able to have kids, then they had unprotected sex. If that is true, then Jerry did his own trapping. He's just as guilty. Literally the only innocent in this up until now has been Alex. Since we don't know her motivations for the lawsuit, we don't know if she's doing it for the money. The lawsuit doesn't seem to be about that so far. She's suing to not be bound by a NDA made when she was one year old and couldn't agree to. That's not unreasonable.
Jerry refusing a paternity test? Unreasonable. He obviously financially provided for Alex during her childhood. Legally, that was his only legal obligation. She's an adult now, so that's ended. As for some kind of inheritance? He can clearly state in his will that she gets nothing when he dies. So any lawsuit for money she brings has no legal standing. As for a moral obligation, Jerry dropped the ball big time. The absolute second he was told that he had a potential child, he should have agreed to a paternity test. If it came back that he was the father, he should have done what was right for his child. He chose instead to throw money at his "problem" and hope that it went away. Note that I am not talking about the amount of blame the mother shoulders here. She's
equally to blame, but this is a forum for the Cowboys, and by association since he owns the team, Jerry.
The main point I've been trying to make this whole time is that Alex should absolutely not be legally bound by a NDA made when she was a minor and so she has the right to sue so she's not bound by it. She is not entitled to any money at this point. She was already financially provided for as a child.
Jerry could have been a good man and done the right thing by her and taken the paternity test and been a father to her if it came back positive. He could have been a man and accepted the responsibility for his mistakes and lived with the consequences. He chose to be a selfish boy and a coward instead. For that, he lost all remaining respect that I had for him.
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