It is completely beyond their reach.

It was never in the slightest danger, and it never will be.” He set down the papers.

“But that ‘consolidation agreement’ you had them agree to sign tomorrow — the one they think brings them in on the money?”

“Tell me what it actually does.”

“What it actually does,” he said, “is transfer legal ownership of the house, the land it sits on, the SUV, and the entire inventory of your brother’s business directly to you — as restitution for the funds they misappropriated.

Sole ownership.