Yvie Grear.
The timing.
And here is the part that turned it from cruelty into something a court could look at.
I instructed a solicitor about the house on the fourth of May, 2023.
The complaint was received on the fifteenth of May, 2023.
Eleven days.
And what a complaint does to a doctor in the middle of a divorce is this: it puts you in a position where you cannot fight two things at once.
Hollis told me at the time — in the August of 2023, in his own office, and he was right — that if we contested the finances properly it would take eighteen months and would run alongside the regulator, and that I would be doing both while not practising.
I signed a settlement that gave my ex-husband the house in Ellery, which I had bought in 2017, with a deposit from my grandmother, four years before I met him.
I signed it because I could not carry both. That was the entire point of the complaint, and it worked exactly as intended, and it cost two hundred and eleven thousand pounds of equity.
That settlement was set aside in the February of this year on the basis of material non-disclosure and conduct, and the house is being sold, and I will get most of it back.
That took eleven months and it is not finished.
