After Graduation, I Took One Quiet Step to Protect My Future—It Turned Out to Matter

just a paralegal my father played golf with who’d been foolish enough to file the documents without verifying anything—lost his certification and faced his own legal consequences.

My parents were ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution for legal fees and damages. They tried to argue they couldn’t afford it. The judge pointed out they’d been planning to continue reading …