This morning, when I told my husband I wouldn’t hand over the money for my mother-in-law’s tour of Europe, he completely lost his temper.

What Daniel had forgotten was that the house he was ordering me out of had never belonged to him.

Three years earlier, after his company collapsed, the bank refused to refinance us. I bought the property outright through a holding company created before our marriage, using inheritance money my grandmother had left solely to me.

Daniel had signed every document.