She ran part of the administrative side of his software agency, and her argument was one that sounds, if you do not look at it too closely, like prudent financial planning: if the business ever ran into liability, or aggressive creditors, the family home would be safely insulated if it were held in her name alone.

Out of the reach of anyone who came after the company.

David trusted his wife.

Of course he did; she was his wife, and the mother of his sons, and the reasoning was sound, and he had no cause, that day, to imagine that the person insulating the family home from creditors was the creditor.

He signed the quitclaim deed.

He handed her the house, on paper, and thanked her for thinking of it.