Legal advice was available separately for the rights and remedies the meeting itself could not decide.

Noah would be with care Mara arranged, away from the discussion.

I wanted her beside me for the adult conversation without having her son beside the transfer figures.

At 6:45, before he woke, her kitchen table held two cups of coffee and the documents in date order.

Sale proceeds first.

Transfer second.

The authorization used in connection with it, and the account records showing the recorded authority and opening history.

“I keep wanting the signature to answer it all,” I said.