…and then when I got out, they arrested me for swindling the sons of my dead housekeeper out of the settlement they got when she fell and died on my front steps.
Okay, that was not one of the more successful Amy Winehouse songs. The scansion could probably use a little work.
Bunch of Lawyers!
Back awhile, a collegue had one checkbook for both his personal expenses and his business expenditures. That looked like trouble, but his lawyer was sure there would be no problem as long as he kept the two cash flows separate “in the books”. What do I know?
Legal fees will eat you alive. I bet there was a mountain of paperwork protecting that arrangement, written in a language that is opaque to most mortals.