Chapter 5 - BRIARSTONEJason started Briarstone Restoration three years before we married.
One truck.
Two employees.
Mostly kitchens and decks.
When we married, annual revenue was around $780,000.
By the year I filed for divorce:
$14.6 million.
Jason liked saying:
“I built this.”
He did build part of it.
So did I.
I left my job in commercial operations six months after our wedding.
I created estimating systems.
Vendor controls.
Payroll procedures.
Insurance tracking.
Customer-service scripts.
Hiring processes.
Later I ran procurement.
Then finance operations.
I took a modest salary for tax reasons.
Jason took far more.
That did not automatically make me a legal owner.
Company shares remained titled to him.
But marital appreciation, compensation choices, retained earnings, and our respective contributions were all issues the divorce court would have to value under state law.
Jason translated:
My name is on it.
May you like
Therefore mine.
Law is rarely that childish.
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