Mark picked up his home phone from the living room wall and dialed his family's probate attorney.
Mark: Mr. Vance, I need you at my house immediately.
Attorney Vance: Mark? What's going on? It's after business hours.
Mark: Evelyn just physically assaulted my wife inside my home.
Attorney Vance: Good heavens! Is Sarah alright?
Mark: She has a black eye and a split lip. We are heading to the emergency room in twenty minutes after you get here.
Attorney Vance: I am leaving my office right now. Do not talk to Evelyn or her legal team under any circumstances.
Thirty minutes later, Attorney Vance walked into the living room carrying a thick black leather briefcase.
Attorney Vance: Mark, before we file a police report, you need to see what I uncovered in your father's estate records this morning.
Mark: What did you find?
Attorney Vance: Evelyn has been committing grand larceny against your father's trust fund for the past three years.
Sarah: What do you mean?
Attorney Vance: Before your father passed away, he deposited two million dollars into a private trust specifically designated for Mark and his future children.
Mark: I know about that trust. Evelyn claimed the money was tied up in corporate debt.
Attorney Vance: That was a complete lie. She forged your father's signature six months before he died and transferred the funds to an offshore bank account in Bermuda.
Mark: She stole my father's money?!
Attorney Vance: She didn't just steal it. She used it as collateral to secure a mortgage on her penthouse uptown.
Sarah: So all that money she boasts about... it's not even hers?
Attorney Vance: Not a single dime of it. In fact, she is completely broke without your father's estate funds.
Mark: That's why she's been coming here and harassing us! She's trying to intimidate us so we don't look into the trust!
Attorney Vance: Exactly. She knew that once Emma turned six months old, the trust would trigger an automatic financial audit by the state bank.
Sarah: Today is Emma's six-month milestone...
Attorney Vance: Which means the bank's forensic accountants flagged the missing two million dollars at eight o'clock this morning.
Mark: So she knew she was about to get caught!
Attorney Vance: She was desperate. She came here today hoping to force Sarah into signing a liability waiver regarding the estate.
Sarah: She did try to make me sign a stack of papers! She said it was for Emma's health insurance!
Mark: That miserable, scheming snake!
Attorney Vance: Did you sign anything, Sarah?
Sarah: No! I told her I wouldn't sign anything without Mark reading it first. That's when she lost her temper and hit me!
Mark: She attacked my wife because she couldn't trick her into signing away our rights!
Attorney Vance: This changes everything, Mark. We aren't just dealing with a domestic assault case anymore.
Mark: What are we dealing with?
Attorney Vance: Federal wire fraud, embezzlement, forgery, and felony physical assault against a nursing mother.
Mark: She is going to spend the rest of her life behind bars.