My Husband Divorced Me At 78, Taking Our $4.5 Million House: “You’ll Never See The Grandkids Again.” He Laughed, I Left. A Month Later, An Unknown Number Called Me: “Ma’am, There’s Been An Urgent Situation Involving Your Husband…”

Not out of anger, though anger was there, steady as a pilot light, but out of something colder and more useful. The recognition that the game had not been played fairly, and that unfairly played games could sometimes be replayed.

I needed a different attorney. I needed someone who understood asset concealment and fraudulent conveyance in the context of divorce. I needed financial records I didn’t currently have. And I needed, most importantly, to understand what Harold had actually done, not what he had claimed on his disclosures, but what he had actually done.

I opened my laptop, the small one I’d bought myself three years ago to video-call the grandchildren, and I began to research. I found the name of a firm in Hartford, Brennan and Associates, that specialized in high-asset divorce litigation with a focus on financial misconduct. I found that Connecticut law allowed for post-judgment motions if fraud could be demonstrated in the original proceedings. I found that LLC transfers made within two years of a divorce filing could be scrutinized if the intent to defraud could be shown.