This is what feels contradictory to me: you’ve said more than once that getting legal advice and understanding the realistic baseline matters, so we know what we’re working from. But when I ask whether you’d be willing to use California’s more protective long-marriage support framework as the fairness benchmark, the response becomes that legal baseline doesn’t matter because we’re mediating.

Those two positions don’t fit together. I’m not asking whether we are literally going to litigate in California. I’m asking whether, in principle, you’d be willing to use the fairer benchmark. I’d still like a direct answer to that question.