The financial record and the conduct of the litigation also supported the fee arrangement incorporated in the final order.

Zachary was required to cover Douglas’s documented legal bills.

It was a specific result in our case, not a rule that a spouse’s affair automatically made every invoice the other person’s responsibility.

When I reached the last page, I put down the pen.

“Is there anything I’m promising here that depends on Brenda or Paige?”

“No promise about their conduct,” Douglas said.

“The matters involving them remain separate.”