Chapter 22 - Appendix H
Judge Keene ruled Appendix H unenforceable as written.
Reasons:
The supposed equity remedy referenced an ownership vehicle that did not exist.
Cross knew Greyhaven was trust-owned.
The alternative damages formula bore little relationship to actual probable loss.
Evidence showed the appendix was inserted after my counsel’s reviewed draft and deliberately not highlighted.
Could a sophisticated signatory still be bound by unread attachments?
Sometimes.
But the combination of material concealment and punitive formula defeated enforcement here.
No $1.58 million.
That did not erase my debt.
Cross still claimed unpaid personal design/management fees.
Court-appointed accounting mediator narrowed:
Gross plausible personal obligation:
$196,000.
Setoffs for unsupported charges and money Cross owed me for wrongly allocated items:
$71,000.
Net disputed range:
$112,000–$125,000.
We settled:
I paid Cross Atelier:
$118,000.
Cross released all personal renovation claims.
No admission of fraud by either party in settlement.
Why pay the woman who hurt my daughter?
Because some services were real.
Contracts do not evaporate because one party behaves monstrously elsewhere.
The settlement ended the renovation war.
Then cohabitation claim.
Still open.
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Wilhelmina wanted compensation for household contributions.
That was her last meaningful financial route.
