“Neither of us gets to change them now.”

“I was his wife.”

“And Emily is the beneficiary you’re talking about.”

Patricia looked at the copy I had brought.

It identified a future grandchild, not a pool Richard could simply describe as family money.

“Walter never wanted Richard controlled by a child,” she said.

“A trust for a child isn’t the child controlling him.”

“You really want to do this over money?”