In 1998, she began dating her childhood friend
Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III, who worked as a federal prosecutor in the
United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The two became engaged during a family Thanksgiving celebration in
Nantucket. She married Beau Biden in 2002. The family lived in
Wilmington, Delaware, while her husband served as the
Attorney General of Delaware. Her husband died from
brain cancer in 2015. Biden maintained a close relationship with other members of the
Biden family after her husband's death, encouraging her father-in-law to run in the
2016 presidential election, consulting him before the launch of his
2020 presidential campaign and attending
mass with the family at
St. Joseph on the Brandywine. In 2016, she began a relationship with her brother-in-law,
Hunter Biden, who was in the process of going through a separation from his wife,
Kathleen Buhle. She and Hunter moved to
Annapolis, Maryland, with her children. They ended their relationship in 2019. In March 2019,
The Key School filed a lawsuit against Biden, stating that she failed to pay $55,740 in tuition for her two children for the 2018–19 school year, seventh and eighth grade students. == References ==