They Forgot to Invite Me to Christmas—So I Bought a Mountain. When They Came to Take It, the Deputy Was Already Waiting.

approval under family mediation guidelines. We’re here to finalize the move-in arrangements.”

Consent by silence. They’d invented a new legal theory specifically for me: that not responding to an outrageous demand was the same as agreeing to it.

I almost smiled. “That’s the most creative and desperate legal theory I’ve ever encountered,” I said. I stepped continue reading …