cnu In the third month of marriage, my mother-in-law sat at my own kitchen table and said my apartment was “family property,” then told me I owed her $1,000 a month in rent—but when I calmly said I would just go back to my apartment

that Karen described as the clearest clientpared brief she had received in her twenty-two years of practice.

I also, on the advice of Mark Sellers, transferred four specific accounts, all in my name alone, all premarital savings, to institutions that had no overlap with any account Daniel and I shared.

I was legally entitled to every dollar.

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