My 7-year-old daughter needed emergency surgery, and my in-laws saw it as their chance to take everything. “Sign over the house and the company,” my mother-in-law said coldly, “then we’ll pay.”

of assets. In a hospital setting, under emotional distress, involving a minor…”

He stopped.

Patricia looked at him. “Finish the sentence.”

Mr. Ellison adjusted his glasses. “It looks like coercion.”

Harold’s face flushed red. “We were helping.”

“No,” I said. “You were waiting for the weakest moment of my life to take everything Daniel left for Ava.”

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