Chapter 4 - Marcus Did Not Forge Everything
The truth was more complicated than I wanted.
Father really had changed his estate plan late in life.
He really had intended Marcus to receive a larger operating role.
But not absolute control.
The genuine draft gave Marcus management authority for five years while voting ownership remained divided between us through a trust.
The filed codicil changed only a few crucial paragraphs.
Those paragraphs transferred nearly all voting power to Marcus immediately.
The signature looked authentic because it was.
Forensic examination later showed Father’s signature had been copied from another estate document and digitally reproduced.
The notary seal was genuine.
The notarization was not.
This was not a childish fake will typed from scratch.
It was a real estate plan surgically altered where power mattered most.
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Marcus did not need to invent Father’s entire intention.
He only needed to move it far enough to make himself untouchable.
