At sixty three years old I received an early morning phone call from my distressed daughter. I rushed to Coronation Park in Hamilton and found her sitting on a bench with her two young children and two large suitcases. She explained that her father in law had come to her house the previous evening and demanded she leave because she came from the wrong kind of family. He changed her locks that morning and her husband refused to answer her calls. To make matters worse her father in law used his board position to have her fired from her job before the children even left for school.
I remained perfectly calm because I had been secretly investigating her father in law for eight months. I started my own property management company from nothing in 1994 and eventually built a commercial leasing portfolio worth millions. Her father in law ran a lucrative business in the same sector and always treated me with polite disdain while visiting my Oakville home. Earlier that year I noticed serious financial irregularities involving a subsidiary company leasing my commercial properties. I hired a forensic accountant and discovered that her father in law was siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from my business into his personal accounts.
I took my daughter back to my house and fed her breakfast before explaining that her future was completely secure. I offered her a free three bedroom suite in Burlington and a management position within my own company where her organizational skills would be properly valued. After ensuring her safety I contacted my lawyer of nineteen years to launch a massive civil lawsuit against the subsidiary company and her arrogant father in law. We attached the devastating forensic accounting report to our legal claim and filed a formal complaint with his professional regulatory board regarding his fraudulent financial actions.
The legal action completely dismantled the professional reputation and financial stability of her father in law. He was forced to pay a massive settlement and received an eighteen month suspension that ruined his ability to secure new commercial contracts. The company that wrongfully terminated my daughter offered her previous job back with full compensation but she confidently declined their offer. Her husband eventually visited my kitchen looking exhausted and I advised him to finally choose honesty over loyalty to a corrupt man. By March my daughter was happily celebrating a birthday in my home and thriving far away from the man who underestimated us.