My husband str:uck my mother twice right in front of me and demanded, “Either she leaves tonight or our marriage is over.”

Lucas.

A few days later, $35,000 would move from Lucas’s account into a separate account I had never known existed.

The pattern repeated.

Brandon had been using transfers to relatives as a method of quietly siphoning marital money into a private account held under his sole control.

He had hidden more than $200,000.

And he had started doing it long before he attacked my mother.

Long before she refused to loan him money.

Long before I ever considered divorce.

During a formal deposition, Brandon’s attorney tried to justify