By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

The 48-year-old man who raised questions across the country by adopting his 42-year-old girlfriend to protect his fortune after a deadly DUI accident, is due in court next month facing both lengthy jail time and a multi-million dollar compensation settlement, and Breaking Celebrity News has exclusive details on his legal troubles.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, John Goodman was involved in a fatal car accident in Palm Beach, Florida in February 2010 that led to the death of 23-year-old engineering student, Scott Wilson.

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In an exclusive interview with Breaking Celebrity News, the attorney for the victim’s family has branded Goodman’s questionable actions “sad” and says, not surprisingly, that the family is “devastated” by their loss.

In what many outraged critics are branding as an immoral way to avoid paying the family compensation by protecting his financial assets, the wealthy polo club founder and air conditioning heir, legally adopted his longtime lover, Heather Laruso Hutchins, who is only six years his junior.

Goodman will stand before Judge Jeffery Colbach in the Palm Beach County Courthouse on March 6, charged with DUI manslaught