“It isn’t a sudden morning, either.”

Daniel Peterson’s first divorce email arrived among the messages I had been receiving.

It made his preparations clearer.

There were matters to be filed and answered, not a final judgment delivered by an email.

Then came a proposed temporary support worksheet.

I read the lines twice.

Childcare, school fees, food, transport: he wanted several expense entries reduced or removed.

The result he proposed was $412 less a month than the amount we had been working from.