Chapter 11 - My mother freezes the program
Eleanor suspended the Celebration Support Program.
Immediately.
Not as punishment for children.
As an audit measure.
Future family event expenses required:
Direct approval from family office.
Named recipient.
Vendor invoices.
No personal reimbursement above $500 without secondary review.
No one-person coordinator.
Claire’s upcoming birthday?
Still funded under normal rules once audit controls were installed.
Important.
Claire did not lose her party because her mother misused paperwork.
Then Marietta’s position in Bennett Hospitality Group.
She had no formal executive role.
She did receive:
$72,000 annual consulting income
for family event coordination and brand-hosting work.
Eleanor suspended those contracts pending review.
Could she do that?
Contracts contained termination clauses.
Yes.
Marietta immediately accused me:
“You’re taking food from Claire.”
Claire’s father made over $200,000 a year.
Marietta had substantial personal savings.
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No child was going hungry.
The statement was another attempt to make money sound like survival.
