And the check is free.

Not cheap — free.

Every state has a legal aid line and a bar referral service, and every family court in this country has a self-help desk with a human being at it, and the question takes forty seconds to ask.

Six years ran on the assumption that a document meant what it said, and every single person in this account who could have collapsed it — Evelyn, me, Bernadette, my mother — failed to ask one question of somebody who knew the answer.

Two. Never sign a page that is not attached to the document.