“Can my mother transfer the main house deed without my written consent?” I asked.

“She tried to get around your consent altogether,” Captain Miller said.

“Your aunt Linda co-signed the paperwork as an auxiliary notary witness and swore under penalty of perjury that your overseas deployment made you legally unreachable.”

“The county clerk, Susan, flagged the filing,” Miller went on.

“But Linda told her you’d given verbal power of attorney before you shipped out.”

He took a white legal petition out of his top desk drawer and set it next to the county deed record.