I don't think she stated why but Annie did allude to JR being aggressive or angry. The fact that she did not even know he had died leads me to believe that she had no contact with him for quite some time. Then take into account that JR had been fighting for custody himself for years and its easy to see why the breakdown in the relationship with Tylee was the way it was.
JR's sister/Tylee's Aunt Annie has a blog, I don't know that she's discussed it there. IMO only, sounds like JR may have had some
Yes and No. Beneficiaries on accounts such as retirement and other investment accounts go to the beneficiary listed, pending he never updated them I could see LV still being beneficiary. Now things like checking accounts in single name, property (personal and land) would flow through the will if there was no will yes Tylee would be first in line.
Am wondering that since Tylee was underage the funds may have flowed to LV FBO Tylee Ryan, and there would also have been SSI survivor benefits.
IMO any relationship issues between JR/TR had at least as much to do with Lori’s mind games and manipulation as anything else. Whatever JR may or may not have been as a husband - or whatever LV may or may not have been as a wife, there is no power on earth that can change the fact that he was Tylee’s father.
It appears that that JR's crime as far as Lori was concerned was that their marriage failed and she blamed him 100% for it, but
primarily that he had the audacity to ask for access to his own child. When he did, her Lori’s brother was lying in wait to ambush, taze, and break his ribs. Apparently that's how they do conflict in the Cox family, at least this bunch, and it sure has carried through to date.
Custody issues related to Tylee went on for years (per KVW, CV footed legal bills ballpark $250-300K IIRC, and JR would have likely had the same type of bills).
Quite telling is that when JR was awarded custody, the first thing Lori did when she had her custodial time was to
remove TR from the jurisdiction, start up a bunch of malicious rumors that JR had abused Tylee, involved her daughter in the rumors, and used those to threaten JR. We have insight into this because Tylee herself told a friend in Hawaii all about it.
Then when Tylee’s father died, Lori discouraged her from mourning him, stating the world was better off without him. What does that say to a kid? It feels very much like a form of emotional ‘violence’ to me to inflict this on any child – period - especially one who is emotionally vulnerable, having just lost her father forever.
But wait, it gets worse. A little over a year later, Charles is also ambushed, only instead of a good old tazing with some broken ribs, we have now escalated to two bullets to the chest, and this happens when both Tylee & JJ are there. This is followed also by flagrant callousness and disregard for Charles’ two sons & Colby - telling all 3 of those young men their father/stepfather died by TEXT, providing either no detail or straight-up lies, then dodging them for days so they don't know which end is up? Good God. Did anyone see the utter heartbreak of Annie Cushing and Cheryl Wheeler on Dateline? Annie is devastated for Tylee and JJ, and of course Cheryl is devastated for her sons. These are normal and relatable reactions to something unbelievable yet all too real, and it’s happening in their FAMILY.
Not so much for Chad and Lori, who act as if they are the victims while they leave utter carnage in their wake, treating their own loved ones as acceptable collateral damage. I can’t even with these two.
