After forty-one years of marriage, Ruth Dalton watched her husband Charles throw her car keys onto the table and demand that she sign pension paperwork, insisting she would still receive her fair share. Ruth refused to sign anything she didn’t understand. Her daughter Emily immediately encouraged her to find her own attorney, leading Ruth to Margaret Bell, an experienced lawyer who discovered that Ruth still had important survivor protections Charles couldn’t simply remove without her consent. Even if Charles filed for divorce, decades of marital property would still have to be addressed. For the first time, Ruth realized she had options—and Charles wasn’t the only person who got to decide what happened next….. Continue Reading 🔽
