My Parents Arrived With Suitcases Like My Apartment Was Already Theirs

apartment, Elaine had insisted on one extra layer I thought seemed a little paranoid at the time.

A trust.

Nothing fancy. Just enough to make ownership and occupancy clean, documented, boring. Elaine loved boring. Boring won in court.

Back then she’d asked me, very casually, “Anyone in your family likely to claim residence if they get through your front continue reading …