She found that the transfer was made without consideration, that the transferor retained full possession, control and financial responsibility for fourteen years, and that in substance the property remained a marital asset in which the record owner held bare legal title.

Which is a formulation I have since learned is not unusual at all.

If you give something away and then behave in every respect as though you still own it, a court will eventually agree with your behaviour rather than your paperwork.

Gloria Vance testified for fifty minutes on the second day.

She is seventy-eight.

She taught music in a public school system for twenty-six years.

She had been at my wedding and she had held both of my children within an hour of their being born and she had, for eighteen years, been the only mother I had, because mine died three years before I married her son.