It is not the kind of thing a court would even take seriously enough to set aside, because there is nothing there to set aside.

Sharon Bellweather, who was the family lawyer Peter sent me to and who has been doing this in Kings County for twenty-nine years, put it in one sentence that I have quoted to four different people since.

She said: “Mr.

Vance, if that document had been genuine — if you had personally sat down in 2019 and signed every page of it in front of a judge and a notary and a photographer — it would have had exactly the same legal effect that it has now, which is none.”

I said, “Then what was it for?”