Marisol appreciated the directness.

“I don’t want revenge against my mother-in-law.

I want absolute clarity about my property.

I want her living arrangement ended through the correct legal process.

And I want to understand what filing for divorce would look like.” Priya nodded.

“Then we handle this entire matter with documents, not confrontations.”

They spent the next two hours going over the finances, and seeing five years of marriage condensed into raw numbers was deeply unsettling.

The records proved that Marisol had paid the property taxes without help.