“By law it never entered the estate at all,” Samantha said.

“I recorded this in September because that’s the procedure.

I didn’t make a speech about it because I assumed you had read your own deed.”

“I signed it in an office six years ago.

It was ninety degrees, and I was thinking about the caterer.”

She clicked her pen twice.

“Then hear this part plainly.

Your father has been telling a court that this house is an estate asset since the day he filed.