What had been recorded against the house?

What should I tell the lender?

What could happen if payments were not made?

What should I preserve?

What would separation and divorce mean for the children, the accounts, and the property?

At the meeting, my lawyer let me finish the first account without interrupting.

Then she put the loan papers in one pile and the messages in another.

“These raise related concerns,” she said, “but they are not all the same legal question.”