Lena had built something. She had applied her professional skill and her trained eye and her years of experience to a property and made it worth more than it would have been without her involvement. And Gerald Voss was standing in front of a court and saying that because she had done it as a wife it didn't count.
I found that argument genuinely offensive in a way that had nothing to do with the legal merits and everything to do with the woman who had sat across my desk and told me about it with her hands around a coffee cup and her face completely steady.
I didn't let that show in the document. Good legal writing was not emotional. It was precise and structured and grounded in fact and precedent and I kept it that way. But the precision I brought to this particular response was sharper t
