That's not just cruel. It's strategic.
Because six weeks ago, Alan came to me with documents. He wanted the company to sign off on a financial arrangement — a spousal-incapacity provision, he called it — that would let him take legal control of your assets, on the grounds that you're not competent to manage them.
He needs the firm's cooperation because your condo and your accounts are tied to a benefits structure the company administers.
He needed me to believe you were incapacitated to approve it.
I almost did. His story was very convincing.
Then I walked back into your house for my phone and found a lucid, dignified, obviously competent woman — the surgeon who saved my son — clearing a dinner table she'd been ordered to hide from.
Dr. Torres, your husband isn't ashamed of you.
He's building a legal case that you're incompetent, so he can take everything you own.
Call me. I have copies of what he submitted."
