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Adding to Mr. Clay’s skepticism, during 1992, Mr. Hornberger
experienced a bipolar mental disorder that became progressively
worse. Mr. Hornberger threatened suicide and violence against his
family (i.e., he told Mrs. Hunter that he would “cut her” or “slice
her up”). Petitioner was forced to move with her children out of
the family home. She did not inform Mr. Hornberger of their
whereabouts. Mr. Hornberger was then hospitalized for observation
several times, and on November 3, 1992, he escaped from a hospital.
After being confronted by police and the possibility of his arrest,
Mr. Hornberger agreed to a 30- to 60-day confinement. He was
placed on medication. In order to be convinced that he was
properly taking his medication, petitioner waited approximately 1
month after his release from the hospital to move back into the
family home in February or March 1993.
Mr. Clay objected to petitioner’s requests that the trust pay
Mr. Hornberger’s hospitalization bills, which, at the time, had
accumulated to approximately $50,000. As a result of her strained
relationship with Mr. Clay, petitioner frequently approached her
mother (as cotrustee) to intercede on her behalf in obtaining
additional funds from the trust. It was only after Mrs. Hunter’s
intervention that Mr. Clay permitted the trust to pay Mr.
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were quickly spent, and no business was created. From that point
on, Mr. Clay took a hard-nosed position with petitioner whenever
she requested additional funds from the trust.
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