They removed Rockwell and Beau from management, both of them, in a single vote.

Beau, facing exposure that would not stay inside the family, signed a divorce settlement rather than let it go to open court.

He surrendered his claim to our home.

He agreed to full restitution to my uncle’s trust.

And he signed, with a hand I am told was shaking, an irrevocable waiver granting me sole legal and physical custody of the daughter he had refused, in a hospital room, to sign a single page for.

Nerissa’s small consulting firm did not survive the demand that she repay what had been fraudulently approved; she moved out of state, to relatives, with her son.