Chapter 5 - CARTER TRANSITION LLC
Rachel’s attorney subpoenaed financial records during the divorce filing.
Now she filed.
No more waiting.
Carter Transition LLC was not a normal business account.
Daniel created it four months earlier.
Manager:
Daniel Carter.
Secondary authorized signer:
Madison Blake.
Rachel stared.
Madison.
Then transfers.
Their joint savings.
Daniel’s annual bonus.
A brokerage liquidation.
Total:
$143,000.
Daniel claimed he moved marital funds to protect them during separation.
Protect from whom?
Rachel.
He said:
“You were talking about divorce.”
“I hadn’t filed.”
“You were thinking it.”
Rachel laughed in disbelief.
Then another document.
Apartment lease.
Luxury two-bedroom unit.
Tenant:
Daniel Carter.
Co-occupant:
Madison Blake.
Move-in date:
three weeks later.
Second bedroom labeled on application:
CHILD.
Rachel felt cold.
Daniel had planned a new home.
For himself.
Madison.
Emma.
Without telling Rachel.
Then Evelyn’s name appeared.
Guarantor.
Rachel looked at her.
Evelyn immediately said:
“I guaranteed it because he told me you both had agreed to shared custody.”
Daniel closed his eyes.
Lie after lie.
Evelyn looked furious now.
Not protective of Daniel.
Humiliated by him.
Then the attorney found one more line:
Carter Transition LLC had received a promised future capital contribution of $300,000 from Evelyn’s family trust.
Condition:
upon commencement of independent household and implementation of parenting plan.
Rachel stared.
“So money came if he left me?”
Evelyn answered:
“That was not the purpose.”
“What was?”
“To help him establish housing.”
Rachel looked at her.
“Before any custody agreement existed.”
Evelyn did not answer.
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She had helped create incentives.
Even if she believed Daniel’s story.
