Leonora LaPeter Anton: CLEARWATER — Terry Power's face tightened as he listened to his wife's attorney tick off their assets on the final day of his divorce trial. He sat in a leather chair at a glass-covered table inside a paneled judicial chamber and he thought not for the first time that her voice annoyed him.
He let his gaze drift briefly to the right beyond the judge, to the view of spindly palm trees swaying slightly in front of the glistening Intracoastal Waterway. How stunning it was out there. How stifling in here.
The Jet Ski . . . his wife's attorney said.
"Sold to pay attorney fees," Terry interjected.
The IRA account?
"Distributed to pay property taxes on the marital property."
The Ra…
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