In a well-publicized case of predatory marriage in Canada , Hunt v. Worrod, a 50 year old man who sustained a severe brain injury in an ATV accident, making him incapable of managing his finances and personal care. He married a woman with whom he had been in an on again off again relationship only a few days after being discharged from hospital and unbeknownst to his two sons. By the time they discovered their father missing and found him later the same day, a wedding had already happened, orchestrated, and attended by the bride and her relatives. His sons challenged the marriage on the grounds that their father did not have the capacity to make a decision to marry. The marriage was voided in a ruling helped by an unusually large (compared to similar cases) amount of medical evidence describing Mr. Hunt’s cognitive problems.

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