Chapter 11 - Bennett Home Projects
David worked full time as sales director for a building-material distributor.
He also owned a small side company.
Bennett Home Projects LLC.
Weekend renovation consulting.
Kitchen redesign.
Subcontracting.
At its best, the company made around $35,000 a year.
At its worst, it lost money.
I believed it was modestly profitable.
It was not.
The business had suffered two failed projects.
One client withheld final payment over defects.
A subcontractor demanded $18,000.
David used credit to keep the business alive.
Then inheritance money.
Investigators traced approximately $61,000 from my account into accounts tied to Bennett Home Projects over fourteen months.
David claimed these were marital investments.
I had never agreed.
He showed one text:
If the business needs a little help this year, we’ll figure it out.
Mine.
From ten months before the first transfer.
Rebecca read it.
“Not great.”
I wanted to scream.
“A little help is not sixty-one thousand dollars.”
“I know.”
“Then why say not great?”
“Because cases involve what both sides will argue.”
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I learned to stop asking lawyers to emotionally validate me.
They are not built for it.
