At 3:17 a.m., I Thanked My Husband’s Mistress on Company Slack—Then a 2:41 Login Led to My Inheritance
My grandfather had anticipated that a beneficiary might become vulnerable through a relationship.
A documented marital breakdown involving infidelity was one condition that allowed the family trustees to review and confer specified representative voting authority.
It did not award ownership of an unrelated corporation as punishment for a husband’s affair.
The financing instruments addressed a different problem: the borrower’s leverage, reporting, collateral, and rights available following a defined default.
Those two sets of arrangements could interact through the family investment vehicle.
They could not be collapsed into “he cheated, therefore you own his company.”