Chapter 10
Chapter 70
Liam was startled, completely forgotting how angry Aria had made him earlier. He said, “It hasn’t been finalized yet. No need to nunh
Hannah said, “Let’s contact the lawyer first, give him the rest of the documents, and mention this issue while we’re at it. See what the chances are:
“a” Caleb dropped his gaze, not wanting to appear too vulnerable in front of his sister.
Both sides agreed to meet at the law office.
Liam handed over the paper documents. “Mateo, here’s the prenuptial agreement and the medical report of the housekeeper who got assaulted.
“This is also evidence that her adoptive parents sold her off as a child. A witness has agreed to testify in court if it’s not absolutely necessary, I’d rather
not bring this out”
Selling a kid off as a child was disgraceful. As long as Aria didn’t push too far, Liam didn’t want to expose it either.
Mateo flipped through the documents, his frown deepening by the second. “The other party isn’t asking to split your assets. This prenup is basically
useless.
“The injury report can be used as evidence of her violent behavior. But where’s the actual proof she assaulted someone?”
Liam froze. “in’t this enough?”
Mateo shook his head. “Of course not. Your housekeeper got hurt. Just saying she hit her isn’t enough. Where’s the evidence?”
Liam replied, “My bad, I didn’t prepare everything. I’ll have the butler pull the security footage.”
Mateo nodded, then asked, “Didn’t you say the money she used for investing came from fraud? Do you have evidence ready?”
Liam answered, “They’re the ones suing. Shouldn’t they have to provide evidence? Don’t worry, Mateo, there’s no way she can prove she got that money legally.”
Mateo explained, “Mr. Cole, she invested and owns shares–that’s a fact. If you think she committed fraud and you don’t want her to take the shares, you have to prove it. It’s not up to her to prove she deserves to keep them.”
Liam added, “She invested after we got married. The shares belong to the Cole family.”
Mateo replied, “Anything gained during a marriage counts as marital property. The initial 150 million dollars she put in is hers, but the profits–dividends. stock sales–are marital property. The problem is…”
Mateo gave him a weird look. “This prenup says that all personal and marital assets remain separate. You two have no joint property.
you want her shares or the profits from them, you’d have to invalidate the prenup. But if you do that, she can also ask to split your assets”
“As for this so–called ‘child contract, buying and selling children is a crime. If this is true, both sides could face criminal charges. You giving me this contract…” Mateo trailed off, his eyes glinting with a hint of contempt, guessing Liam probably wanted to smear Aria for being married twice.
Mateo continued, “You swore up and down she was a fraudster, married you under false pretenses, and was violent. I thought you guys had solid
evidence. Now the trial’s about to start.
“Mr. Cole, hate to break it to you, but you’re probably going to lose.”
Mateo had seen plenty of rich men who wanted to dump their wives ather becoming sucessful and were reluctant to share assets
But Mateo had never met one who, after signing a p
a prenup, wanted to grab his wife’s assets too
“This’s definitely a new low. If I had known it would be like this, I never would’ve taken the case, Mate thought
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Thinking about how confident the other lawyer was, Mateo fall completely humiliated now
There were better ways to handle this, but Mateo wasn’t the kind of giry to stoop that low.
Liam hadn’t expected things to be this complicated. His Ince darkened. “No wonder Aris was so quick to sign that prenup. She was planning for this along”
Mateo stayed silent. He really didn’t get how rich people’s brains worked.
