Credibility and/or leverage, right? I'm only tasked with eliminating the 1 mil and it's passive increases from the marital estate or gross income configurations should the marriage last long enough that her financial enabling provisions kick in.
I understand your preferential payment concern and obligation to disclose but my client is not a guarantor of his friend's debt nor do I believe this future promise to be a current attachable asset of the friend or subject to disclosure.
Do you disagree?
Certainly not, my friend, but the implications here with just a little tweaking would make a hell of a bar exam question, covering at least four areas of law. Still wondering (and still don't want to know) if to the gf, the sleaze factor of the friend's prior financial activities colors her judgment. I've known one woman who was really good about spotting phonies. The rest, not so much.
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
