Brand expansion.

Market development. The money itself had gone to sports cars, to jewelry, to first-class holidays, to a stretch of high-end real estate, and to an oceanfront villa in Cabo where my husband had, several times a year, told me he was locked in executive retreats.

My lead divorce attorney was a family-law litigator named Adeline Lawson, a compact, precise woman who never raised her voice and never needed to.

She laid a row of surveillance photographs across the conference table in front of me and let me look.