Chapter 7

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Before the paternity dispute was resolved, Margaret and Victor challenged the estate inventory. They hired an expensive new attorney. He spent 40 minutes discussing the company's valuation in an effort to prove I'd concealed a vast portion of Gavin's wealth. When it was Olivia's turn, she produced only the company's audited statements, investment gains and losses, and property records. "You used an estimate of gross assets," she said, "while ignoring corporate debt, Ms. Morgan's personal equity, and jointly owned property that does not form part of the estate." The figures aligned row by row on the projection screen. The other attorney finally began to speak more slowly. In the news, Gavin's wealth was a single number. In court, it broke apart into things that were nothing alike: deb

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