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I reminded him that everything we enjoyed was built on my work\u2014and that the prenup he once dismissed would determine the outcome.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1775106\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The next day, I froze all financial privileges connected to me and spoke with his mother to ensure her medication would continue under a new arrangement in her name. When Mark called, furious about being declined at a restaurant, I didn\u2019t engage. Soon after, I met his new partner, Claire, who claimed she didn\u2019t care about money but was clearly unsettled by the reality of his situation. She discovered he had misrepresented his finances and that he was staying in a motel, unable to access the lifestyle he had described.<\/p>\n<p>The divorce proceeded quickly under the prenup. There was no alimony\u2014only a carefully structured settlement. 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