After child support arrearages are factored in, you’ll be lucky to walk away with a fraction of your forty.

I have to be honest with you, Mr. — this is one of the cleanest cases against a client I have seen in some time.

Your wife did not leave you a single loose thread to pull.”

Chapter 15 — The Hidden Income

And then came the part that turned a losing case into a humiliating one, and it was, I will admit, the part I had taken a certain grim professional satisfaction in preparing.

Months earlier, when Jason had applied for an auto loan, he had saved copies of his own tax documents and bank statements onto the shared home server — the household computer we both used, the one whose files I had every right to access.