“With all due respect, Your Honor,” he said, “my client vacated the property under significant emotional strain. Moving is chaotic. Things happen. It’s entirely possible that some of the damage depicted here may have existed before my client left the residence. Pre-existing conditions. Wear and tear.”
I felt Claire’s hand touch my arm under the table. Stay still.
Ezoic
“As for the faucets,” Pruitt went on, “my client has no recollection of leaving any water running and cannot account for it.”
Ezoic
Then he moved on, smooth as butter, to the remaining asset division.
He spoke about Brian’s expenses. His legal costs, which had been “extraordinary.” His new monthly rent. His car payment. His “reduced financial position.” He made Brian sound like a man barely holding on. A man who’d lost his home and his marriage and was struggling to rebuild.
He never mentioned the condo by the lake. Or the hot tub.
