In 2001, Dr. Richard Batista gave his wife the ultimate gift: his own kidney in a transplant operation that saved her life. Four years later, she wanted a divorce, so he wanted his kidney back. The court, obviously, didn’t like it.
Love might make people give their hearts away, but Richard Batista gave his kidney, too. A New York surgeon, Batista, donated one of his kidneys to his wife, Dawnell, in 2001 after hers began to fail. For a while, it worked like a medical miracle and a marital reset, as he wished. But soon, the 11-year marriage collapsed, and the kidney became an exhibit in one of the strangest divorce cases the courts had ever seen.
