Callum filed requests, Nadia answered them, and we sat in offices while people explained assets that had once seemed impossible to question.

At one meeting I learned that my contribution to several renovations had been documented in emails from years earlier: floor plans I had revised, garden layouts I had supervised, contractors I had coordinated while Callum traveled.

The emails didn’t make me the owner of his entire business.

They did establish that the picture he painted of a woman who “did nothing” was false.

Nadia made sure I understood what the law could and couldn’t do.