There was a very clear caveat that the will as it stood could not be contested and if it was, the person doing the contesting would be left out with nothing.

That's a neat legal trick. P.S. this cannot be contested, nyah. I think the Bush administration has been doing something similar in re the Supreme Court.

Um, what's a 'progenitor son'?

He is his own grandpa?

Now, now, brenda, the author is a lawyer. I'm sure she must know what she's talking about.

Or brother? Or uncle?

Sometimes it's hard to believe this author's first language is English.

I think the author is a "lawyer" -- based on nothing more than the description of the legal proceedings. I don't think that even a legal secretary would be so far off in describing the reading of a will and its provisions.

Nikita fidgeted and adjusted her black Armani two-piece Italian suit

1. Armani suits are all Italian. A dude name of Giorgio Armani does not come from Mongolia, you know.

Fashioned from a delicate crepe de chine, it brought forth the softness of the feminine form

2. Has this person ever seen the tidy, quasi-masculine shape of an Armani suit?

and the frilly peplum

3. Obviously not.

her almost invisible pearl studs sitting prettily In her earlobes

4. Not that close to invisible.

And that's just the clothes critique!

the frilly peplum added the illusion of fun expected from a successful young woman.

Wearing a frilly peplum may indicate that a woman is a professional, but probably not in the sort of profession the author has in mind...

"The illusion of fun" -- so successful young women are expected to project an illusion of fun rather than fun itself. Interesting.

I can sort of picture the look she's after, but if it's not an Armani picture(recent Las Vegas exposure tells me nsm) it's best not to be quite so specific...more of a Chandler thing, like "Casual as she looked, she even smelled like money."(Not like a Chandler Bing thing like "My God, could you *be* more ignorant?" although that crossed my mind, too, I must confess.)