(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Indiana Supreme Court ruled that parenting doesn't stop after death.
It's customary for some people to ask for parents' permission before tying the knot, and in Indiana it doesn't matter if those parents are living or dead.
The state's Supreme Court unanimously ruled deceased parents are able to use their wills or trusts to control the lives of their adult children, including whether or whom they marry.
The only exception is that a will cannot dictate marriage provisions for a widow or widower, but a trust can.The case reached the high court after a woman from Seymour, Ind. died in 2016.
According to the Northwest Indiana Times, her trust included a provision that awarded her son his share of her estate outright if he was unmarried at the time of her death. Otherwise, his share of assets would be held in a subtrust controlled by another family member if he was still married to his third wife.
Last year, the Indiana Court of Appeals interpreted those conditions as a restraint on marriage and therefore void, but the Supreme Court later overturned the decision.
