Man Adopts Girlfriend, John Goodman, Heather Hutchins [PHOTO]: Florida Polo Tycoon's Strange Attempt to Preserve Fortune Reversed, Convicted of DUI Manslaughter

In order to make sure his 42-year-old girlfriend, Heather Hutchins, had some of his fortune during a heated civil suit settlement with his ex-wife, Carroll Goodman, Florida Polo tycoon John Goodman adopted his longtime beau, preserving her claim to his money. The 49-year-old multimillionaire who founded the International Polo Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, unfortunately had his allowed adoption reversed by an appeals court today after his ex-wife filed the claim. To make matters much worse for Goodman, last year he was convicted of DUI manslaughter for the 2010 car crash that killed 23-year-old engineering student Scott Wilson.

According to court documents, Florida's Third District Court of Appeals Senior Judge Alan R. Schwartz stated that this adoption of a "paramour" or lover was "so contrary to the beneficent purposes of such an action that it could not be confirmed by the court."

In his decision to void Goodman's adoption of Hutchins, Judge Schwartz cited the accident [explained below], the trust fund that John and Carroll Goodman had set up in 1991 for their two biological children, and that the polo tycoon gave his ex-wife "no notice of the adoption proceeding."

While driving his Bentley drunk in February of 2010, Goodman reportedly ran a stop sign and crashed into Wilson's Hyundai, sending the student's car into a nearby canal where he drowned. In the 2012 trial, Judge Jeffrey Colbath said that Goodman "left to save himself" without calling 911 as Wilson drowned, strapped into the driver seat of his vehicle.

"His conduct from the moment the crash happened to the time he came to be in the custody of law enforcement was to save himself," Judge Colbath said. "It wasn't to go get help and it wasn't because he was disoriented. It was because he wanted to figure out a way to save himself. He had an opportunity to try to save Mr. Wilson [...] I believe what the jury believed -- that he knew he pushed [Wilson's] car in the canal. He knew there was someone in the canal and he left to try to save himself."