Culverhouse Divorce Could Affect Local Charities

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By GRETCHEN PARKER gparker@tampatrib.com
Published: Apr 8, 2006
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TBO.com Site Search | Tribune archive from 1990TAMPA - The soap-operalike yarn of one of Tampa's most prominent families is snarling new tangles, as the matriarch declares in court papers that she is divorcing the man whose involvement in her philanthropy sparked a legal battle by Tampa-area nonprofits.
Joy McCann Culverhouse, the 86-year-old widow of former Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse Sr., has filed a brief petition for divorce from Robert Daugherty Jr., a former dean of University of South Florida's medical school who is 15 years her junior. The split raises questions about whether she will continue a court fight she began last year to shift millions of dollars from her late husband's hand-picked causes to her new husband's alma mater and other causes "