While studying at the University of Michigan, Jones met a politically active student, Robert Higgins, who would eventually become her husband [REF].
In the late 1990s, Jones's mother was diagnosed with throat cancer, and in 1997, Higgins objected to a medical procedure for his mother-in-law, but was banned from the hospital room after a psychological evaluation on Jones's mother found she was "inappropriately manipulated by family--especially son-in-law."[REF]