“You have every legal right to secure the main entrance against unannounced entry, as long as you leave one secondary door unlocked for him until a temporary hearing is set.”

She pushed a typed single-page document across the laminate desk toward my cup.

“This notice goes on the kitchen counter beside the legal summons,” Rebecca said.

“It gives him forty-eight hours to hire a lawyer before the initial financial disclosures become binding.”

“I am not going back to that house to start an argument,” I said.

“You’re going back to deliver the paperwork in person,” Rebecca said, setting her pen down on the yellow pad.

“And you’ll stay seated while he reads every line of it.”