My sister took power of attorney over both my parents finances. She takes all of my mother Social Security and put it in my father‘s account and moves it into their account, her boyfriend notarized all of the documents. When you mention coercion I believe this is what happened. My dad is now deceased, and she moved money post deathand then tried to plan his funeral services without his wife and other children and family members. It’s been devastating and hard to comprehend this level of cruelty and deception.
Same!!!! But I’m an agent and caught all the debauchery. THEY WILL REAP WHAT THEY SEWED WITH A BULLETPROOF CASE…. They will think long and hard with their jail sentence. BYE!!!!😂
Same thing happened to my family. My mother was not allowed to see her husband. He was loved by our family. The cruelty that goes behind entitled heirs.
Coercion is done more by force. Undue influence is influencing the elder to do it. Or doing it when the elder becomes somewhat weaker and has less faculties. You can try to get an attorney. There’s something called tortious interference, meaning someone interfered with your inheritance. ( you would have received it if not for them interfering) Get a good lawyer that works in overturning estates.
I’m so sorry this happened & hope justice is served !! I had a brown tumor & trusted my Realtor/Broker who was supposedly a Christian to be POA over my 1st home I’d bought as a single parent with 2 small children while I underwent a 6.5 hour brain surgery & she was supposed to put monies in Escrow to either rent or sell the home (whichever came 1st) and instead she rented it cheaper than we agreed and was conspiring (with other “Investors” to purchase my home as it was zoned in the 20 year plan to become mixed residential and commercial ) it was prime real estate location and they were (together) buying up residential lots to put together in a package to sell to the County or some wealthy real estate investor to develop up the road!! I got the Department of Professional Regulations to do an investigation yet they found nothing the case was closed! The DAY I was allowing a little old lady move in who was buying it and letting her pay me minimal rent ($500) due to her fixed limited income, the ac unit was stolen out of the yard and the local sheriffs saw the fingerprints and wouldn’t lift them when I filed a case! Unbelievable! Recently, I got on a plane to go visit a dying friend and as soon as I left my 2 siblings had 2 strangers come & had my elderly parents they haven’t visited or brought the kids for holidays for a decade or 2 show up and had them sign a DUA pioneer of attorney . I thought it was Dual but mom thinks it’s called “Dua”which is why I’m here. On top of all THAT my dad LIED and said I was stealing from them and abusing them so I spoke with a Detective as my sister who accused him of sexual abuse (which he IS guilty of) is sucking up to him, calling him and instead of texting or asking us first since she was unable to reach them called the police not once but THREE times to do a well check ! They pulled the records and found no mention of me or elderly abuse so…not sure if she called social services separately so waiting in a return call from them! ALSO, I have an attorney to file a “Cease and Desist” order for defamation of character and Libel. She has falsely accused with WITHOUT any investigation into the matter & believed a liar, sociopathic narcissist who she knows is one (detective says it sounds like all they care about is getting their inheritance and sees this all the time! I’m an Earth Angel and Heyoka Empath and Andromedan Starseed so this won’t end up well for them at all as Gods got my back for sure. Meanwhile trying to exercise wisdom and be judicious in how to proceed to protect myself. My mom had in video and in writing refuted any stealing or abuse and I have receipts and deposit slips of all the money I’ve given them over the years while helping them whike my siblings were nowhere in their lives. They only recently started coming around as they are older and I moved to help them. NOW they’re interested? It’s quite obvious ! Karmas a bitch and I DO believe in it because it’s true!
Your video nailed it for me, great explanations here by an attorney who seems to know his shit! My Grandfather's former POA (who was not a family member but supposedly a family "friend"), depleted his entire financial estate in 3 - 3 1/2 years, which then robbed me of my inheritance I was to receive after his death, opened up credit cards in his name, racked them up and didn't pay the bills and had him sued/decimated his credit, attempted to steal life insurance payouts to beneficiaries, etc., ( I could go on and on here) but wait for it...that wasn't enough for her! She took it a step further and stole all my family's personal property from me that was saved/salvaged from a house fire that my Grandfather & Aunt (who passed away in the fire), owned at the time! I didn't discover the level of damage she had done until immediately starting after his death (he had dementia and died of "senile/degeneration of the brain"). I got totally screwed because I couldn't afford 10-15K that attorneys required to take the case and prosecute her civilly. As you probably know, once this kind of thing is discovered, it's usually AFTER the principle passes away, in my state (Virginia), it then becomes a civil issue and no longer a criminal one. People, PLEASE pay attention as to who gets POA over your loved ones, it's a very serious thing if the wrong person gets it - IT DESTROYS LIVES! If you see something suspicious, you need to SAY SOMETHING NOW to law enforcement, adult protective services, etc. Don't be a fool and wait, you will regret it if you do. Thoughts & Prayers to all of you who are also victims of such disgusting crimes.
You're speaking of only fiscal issues. My brother is using his power of attorney to sell the land outside of the family. This is property that has been in our family for over 100 years. My mother would be horrified! Some of it was supposed to go to me, but I offered to buy it instead of waiting to inherit it at fair market value and he refused. A cousin wants to buy my mom's share but my brother seems to prefer to sell it to a neighbor. My brothers won't let me see Mom or talk to her because they know I will tell her what they are doing and they don't want to "traumatize" her. She is in the very early stages of dementia. She needs help with decisions but she is mentally capable of forming opinions
I volunteer with a program here in Canada doing tax returns year round. A few years ago a woman with power of attorney for her Dad had me do his return. She told me her brother previously had power of attorney but had emptied Dad's bank account. With the money gone and only the work left, he bowed out. I noticed that something had been missed on previous filings so I prepared a number of adjustments for her to sign as attorney. I encountered her at a subsequent tax clinic. She told me that the adjustments had replaced the $21,000 her brother had made off with.
Good day! I wanted to let you know that I took a whole ton of your advise from several videos over the past year and finally went to an attorney to have wills done for my wife and myself. I was loaded for bear and had a list of questions based on your videos for what and what not to do with a will. Good news is we learned a lot while talking things over with our new attorney, mostly because we showed up with a great background and base to work from. Thank you so much for taking the time and making the effort to share your knowledge and experience to help us.
Wills can be rewritten. Get an irrevocable trust. Mom had a will and I deposited at the probate court for safe keeping thinking it is safe. But brother took dementia ridden mom and had a new will written. The will at the probate court wasn't worth the paper it was written on. The court sealed the will making it impossible to obtain.
@@americasestateplanninglawy1946 My brother was my mother's power of attorney. he had been my mother's power of attorney for two years I had to intercede on my mother's behalf because my brother was taking her money and none of her bills were being paid I contacted my mother sister although my mother has dementia she quite well understands everything so I took my mother to the bank I had the bank to disclose to my mother what was going on I had my mother revoke my brother as a power of attorney and I therefore became her power of attorney at that point I requested that the bank do an audit from the time he became her power of attorney I found that my brother was paying his bills through my mother's account... He also was using my mother's account as a business account and whatever finance company he was dealing with was taking payment through my mother's account because I had all my mother's information, I was able to stay on top of things and was able to check on things. my brother blocked me from seeing activity, on line for her account. i knew he was up to no good. when I realized that he was financially abusing her I went to my mother I explain to my mother that we had to pull him off because he was abusing her financially I took my mother and my father who are both elderly people to the bank I had them ask the bank to disclose activity on the account for the last 2 years my mother cried when she realized what my brother was doing as well as my father I requested that he be revoked as power of attorney my parents agreed that I would become their power of attorney upon signing documents and the bank verifying that I was now their power of attorney I requested that the bank disclose all activity on my parents account for the last 2 years to see exactly what he was doing the audit showed that he was doing so much financial abuse in the account.. my brother even attempted to quit claim my parents name off the house my parents gave me full control so what I had hire an attorney to protect my parents ..my brother was trying to refinance the house and or sell iT I stopped my brother from doing it was that my dad had took out a small loan to pay off their bills and that's what stopped them and because my dad had everything emailed to him he received an email from the bank that this was a current. after my brother was revoked as power of attorney from the bank within a matter of 10 days, he went to social security with medical documents stating that my parents were unable to pay their bills and they needed a payee; he was the same person that was stealing from them. Then I realize that he was attempted to do this I had to take both my parents down the social security office, I informed the social security office. Since I am both my parents power of attorney they did not need , I was responsible for all their finances as the power of attorney so what did they need him listed as a payee he was attempting to find another way to steal their money no one can tell me how low-down family member could be- my brother straight up the front (and a Policeman) , was hell bent of doing my parents over. Im a trauma nurse and I watch court tv a lot, and have seen these stories, so I knew how and what to watch for. As for my parents he was trying to continue to do it I am so glad that was I was watching for the signs of abuse. Oh and by the way I sued him for all the money he messed up and got a judgement against him for $65,000 plus damages I garnished the hell out of him.
@@sierria64 awesome job.....going through the same $hit.....true colors show up....when a kid gets thrown in a candy store and no one is watching.......unreal
The sudden passing of my dad , was when my mom first showed minor early signs of Dementia. It was a stressful time, but she was fine to live in their house alone. My sister and I talked to her regularly by phone as we live long distance. Our brother and his wife, who live the closet to her, seemed to take responsibility for our mom, to the point of shutting us out, never informing us of anything or replying to our inquiries. Our brother had told our mom that he they would eventually move her into a granny flat, in the back of their house he and his wife own in SanDiego. My mom was very happy to hear this, but mentioned that she was still fine for now. Supposedly concerned for my mom's safety, my brothers wife, Laura, in cahoots with my brother, tricked my mom, asking to borrow her car to run to store, but drove it to their house never returning, telling her, it was for her own safety, but Laura was driving it. The DMV had just validated my mom's DL for the next 5yrs., mom's car is registered and insured in her name, so my mom filed a police report explaining what happened, it was reported, Laura had stolen her car. Both my sister and I only find out things by talking to our mom, and each other. When we weren't able to get a hold of our mom after 2 wks., my sister, finally got a text from our brother, just stating where she is, no further explanation. Our mom trusted her son, so agreed to give him P.OA. Next thing I hear, they sold her house, have her car, took her to a doctor who NEVER examined her, yet signed a document basically stating that it is in my mom's best interest and safety, that she be institutionalized, so then they put her in StellerCare, close to their 5 bdrm house, she was supposed to move to before her house sold for $400,000. My mom is in shock and hurt by her sons betrayal, just left there and held against her will with no resources to contact an attorney When I finally got to talk with her, it was a limited time call from the front desk phone, she pleaded with me to help her find an attorney to get her out of there. My mom may show early signs of Dementia, like repeating herself or forgetting some words, but she is still very competent. She should not be in there. I need help to get her out of there.
The help you need won't be free and won't come from anyone commenting on youtube. You're going to have to pay for a lawyer. Your mom basically screwed herself by trusting your brother. It happens. Hope she had a great life up until your dad died because she's going to live in Hell now; her own death will most likely be the only way out of that institution.
Find a pro bono attorney, a friend who knows one who can cut you a little bit of a financial deal, or social services! Either way, it shouldn't be hard to prove theft in your mom's case and have all of her money put back where it belongs, with HER! This is so sad, praying for you and your mom for God to make a way. ❤
My family and I have experience with PoAs going back 30 years. About 20 years ago, I had a ‘good friend’ whose mother was elderly and in declining health. Her mom lived on the lower edge of Central Park, in NY, and was well-to-do. My friend rarely visited her. She happened to be a divorced dentist with her own practice, also collecting alimony from her physician ex, but living well beyond her means. So were her 2 teenage daughters, whom enjoyed cashmere socks. She did exactly what you described in your first example! First, she got PoA from her mom. Then she went out and bought her daughters each brand new cars with her mom’s money. She didn’t ask for her permission or tell her. I told her it was wrong, but she doubled down in defense. Our friendship didn’t last.
I am going through that now petitioning the court for conservator guardian my sister has put my mother in a home and now it's cut my step dad's credit cards off change the locks and trying to kick him out of the house
Victims rights advocates are good people who also trained to protect their employers i.e. law enforcement, district attorneys, government officials. Elder financial fraud is the number one white collar crime & no one cares or it wouldn't be the number one white collar crime = ELDER FINANCIAL FRAUD
About when someone is using their power of attorney to keep other people from the person and they’re still in their right mind and they’re making decisions for that person that they don’t want but the person doesn’t want to say anything because then they won’t have no one to take care of them
I haven’t seen examples. I do have Power of Attorney for my aunt who has dementia. I have been managing her affairs for eight years. Most of her household expenses are debit from her checking account so there’s a paper trail there. All other expenses I use a credit card. That works the best for me and I have a record in case I’m ever questioned by her grandchildren about how I’ve spent her money.
My mil gave her daughter poa before she died, and the daughter put everything in her own name. So when my mil died, my husband and his two brothers were effectively disinherited. They didn't do anything about it because "family" and hoped she'd do the right thing. Ha! No records, either. She refuses to show the bank records, either.
Hi Paul we don't know what to do my mother signed power of attorney and a living trust to my sister as my sister did it behind her backs and my mom was still afraid to tell us and she's not taking care of my mom at all the first week she got power of attorney I don't have her bully there into signing a living trust due because of her age and she feels she might be having a dementia when she just because she forgot something I mean we all forget how can my mom get that back now that she's let the family know how can she get back power of attorney and make another living trust cuz we have no paperwork no copies and don't even know what if it's revocable we have no idea what do we do please help please please please GOD BLESS YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU SEEM HONEST TRUTHFUL CARING IS A GREAT GUY LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
I don’t understand why “legal basics” isn’t a mandatory class to take in college…or even to those in high school…elements of a contract, a POA, etc… Great information here in under 7 minutes! Perhaps there is a class offered now. It’s been quite awhile since I attended…our high school mascot was a T-Rex!🦖
My sister in law is my mother in-law’s primary caregiver. That is a huge responsibility and is mentally and physically challenging. So my husband and I told my mother in law to will her home to my sister in law. We are all happy with that decision. Good to figure things out before a loved one dies.
Hi Mr Rabalais. Your information had always ecxelente advices. I am going through a huge problem with my youngest brother, my mother left everything ready and correctly organized before she passed away. A living trust, power of attorney. But usually in every family is always somebody crooked. I am one the Trustees. My oldest brother and my youngest brother. It has been a huge problem for a year and a half. I am very glad I have a great attorney that specializes in Probate. I went through all of the problems that you explained in this video. Thank you again. Have a wonderful day
My sister-in-law did. She put everything in her own name, so now she's a millionaire and my husband, who visited his mother every weekend and did chores for her for years when she became disabled, got nothing.
I’m sending this to my cousin , she told me yesterday her sister did that to her dad and was able to change the Will too ? I was like for real , I would never do this to my parents or brothers and sister , some greedy ass people out there
My sister in law nearly neglected my father in law to death. She convinced him to withdraw $18000 over the course of a year to "hold it for him.". He was in such horrible condition that his next door neighbor called my husband. Trying to see him was impossible. She refused to give any family visitation or info. Eventually someone threatened to call 911 and he was brought to the hospital. He had sepsis, meningitis, a cracked skull, and a TBI. She didn't show up to the hospital, but luckily my husband and aunt were allowed to sign for procedures. My father in law ended up going to a rehab and then nursing home. It's been a few months and his double vision, cognition and crooked neck are resolving. However, she's still POA, cleaned out the house, sold the vehicle, etc. If his neighbor hadn't intervened, called for supports and been so proactive with figuring out how to get ahold of family, I don't believe my father in law would still be alive right now.
It's called elder abuse. You would think the bank would have called the police when the little old lady is brought in by the same family member for regular large cash withdrawals.
Just went through a law suit for just this. We were forced to settle and the man that took advantage of my aunt walks free with a fat check in his hand. This is a problem a huge problem. Hope someday this will end and there will be a bigger focus on this huge problem! It’s horrible and can go on for years , so traumatic for all member of a family. Life changing for sure. And it’s so wrong that these predators take advantage and get away with it even after diagnosis!!!! He even drove her to HIS attorney to give him poa. Next came taking her to sign a TODD on our family farm. So much money so much torment for years. Unbelievable really.
❌✅ A friend of mine, just lost his mom _ she left a Life Insurance Policy, he just signed over POA to his Uncle’s daughter who he says is helping him with everything, she’s said he should file for disability , in his heart broken state, for assistance ___ does this sound right ❓❓❓❓ PLEASE chime Back ‼️ he had taken care of his mom nearly his whole life , and he doesn’t know what to do ❌ Help Please….
Here's a subtle one: using POA to change TOD beneficiaries on brokerage accounts to only benefit the agent, excluding an equitable distribution amongst legal heirs.
My brother is doing just exactly this and making everything joint. Also had my mom with dementia change her Will. I filed guardianship but he has taken my mom out 40 mins away to live with him and his girlfriend. They are refusing to have her tested for dementia. It’s now court ordered and they are still trying to refuse! My brother has completely stolen my half of the inheritance and is using my moms stroke a dementia to exploit her.
My sister has been abusing my mother for over ten years and original the original POA. My mom doesn't want her as POA yet the police do nothing. I am dealing with a Narcissistic sister in Sudbury Ontario. She has my mom in a home and she completely isolates my mother from me. My lawyer tried calling to speak with my mom at the Elizabeth Center and the home denied his call. Can someone help me, my mother has gone through extreme Senior Abuse and I don't know what to do?
My wife, a senior, whom I’m separated from had dementia, her friend who looked after her, convinced her to give her POA. Then they put her in a nursing home. Meanwhile they removed everything of value from the house, sold her cars, and emptied her bank account. A value of about $100,000 in all. The “agent’s” reasons to me, was that they needed to be paid for their personal time of looking after my wife. Although none of my wife’s blood relatives were ever even contacted about my wife’s condition. What sort of legal action does this agent face?
What is if stranger befriends elderly step mom and gets a reverse mortgage on her property. Can person go to jail? She didn’t know what she signed if she’s 95 .
There should be a law that requires attorneys to specifically ask the client if she or he has a will and not have the person who brought the client in to develop the new POA present. The attorney should get a copy of the will and read it to the client before proceeding to set up a power of attorney to someone not named in the will. The attorney should be required to contact the person named in the will to inform them what is about to happen if they do not object. Family members should be allowed to sue the attorney if he has failed to notify the person who was named in a will before producing a new power of attorney for the client. To often a family member living with the client can take advantage of a parent who has lost the capacity to ask questions or process information to make themselves the POA.
@@utubequeen2011 AGREE wholeheartedly! My siblings took my mom to a lawyer in a shady way when she was already struggling with dementia. Now they were scared I was going to take mom to make a new one, so they abducted her away from me after a Sunday church service. The law is not good enough.
👍👏👏Thank you so much for a clear, concise, and detailed explanation. The malicious family members, are supported by the legal system, by intentionally making the process complicated, difficult, and EXPENSIVE; if not financially inaccessible! This is how the judicial system supports, and tells these abusers, it's okay to do so, and get away with it! It's a waste of effort, resources, and especially TIME that we will never, ever get back pursuing this matter.
What about when they withhold or refuse to give funds for vital health needs, such as bathroom repairs? Or when they make you buy things with your own money from social security, and " reimbursing " you upon receiving a receipt?
What if Mom’s POA withheld medical and dental necessities due to negligence or idiocy? One example is the executor (her oldest son) accidentally throwing mom’s dentures away when she vomited them into a trash bin, and then waiting three weeks to call a dentist to get them replaced for her. Had the other siblings not insisted he call a dentist, he wouldn’t have done so. The only reason he eventually did call a dentist was a siblings spouse calling a dentist out of frustration that the POA wasn’t doing it. He also sat on his hands for various medical needs like PT, OT, and UTI tests. At one point he almost let Mom die from a UTI and didn’t even recognize it was happening. He made her decline exponentially worse than it should have been. Now he is the executor and sitting on his hands again. I found a note that he had written that says “live in house for free”. I think that’s his goal. He had been living with her for 15 or 16 years at the time she passed, and he doesn’t want to be bothered with relocation. He wants to “live in house for free”. Help.
Great content. I enjoy your videos. When my grandmother died my dad's brothers took advantage of this kind of situation and made off with whatever money there was. It is fascinating what greed does.
We live in CA - my nephew was assigned POA to his dad, diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Nephews' and his wife are keeping Dad isolated, not letting him have friends, communication, putting cameras and signs all around to try to control. Nephew will not disclose will with sister, threatening her from seeing her dad too. Dad is fearful and confused and should have assisted living care. Nephew and wife is chomping at the bit to take all. We all suspect he is spending Dad's money, refuses care even from DR's, because he thinks DR's. just want your money. We think nephew and wife are guilty of elder abuse.
My mom had a brain aneurysm years ago. Ive been staying in her home for the last 25 years. When this happened i started noticing someone coming into the home while im out. To fix this i would change the locks and give her power of attorney keys that were supposed to go to her...but they never did. The burglary kept going on but when i asked for the keys back i was lied to and told i never gave them keys. My mother also has someone around her now who has openly threatened to hurt her to me and my mother would never be around this person in her right mind but now since she can't make sound decisions for herself this person is around her
Sure, we've all seen it happen, that's why we have an Elder Fraud Section in each state. But the alternative to having a POA is usually a messy and expensive guardianship case -- which also have cases of abuse.
I was also thinking,"What happens when other Adult Child overrides the dishonest Power Of Attorney with a Legal Guardian and then the Legal Guardian screws over the Principal too?
My mil gave her daughter poa before she died, and the daughter put everything in her own name. So when my mil died, my husband and his two brothers were effectively disinherited. They didn't do anything about it because "family" and hoped she'd do the right thing. Ha!
It is sad when a person can’t stop this. My brother just took my mom to override the POA that was me. Now he has taken loans on her home. He has moved her social security to him. He had TOD put on her house deed. I have reached out to attorneys but an attorney will never challenge another attorney which they would need to do to stop the new POA. Calls to senior services … I am trying. But it truly seems a lost care to try to protect your parents.
@Fish I'm so sorry. And you are right. Even attorneys for the elderly say "I'm not a litigation lawyer." And this is how they wipe their hands. I was recommended, look for local community and County senior services to report financial abuse is the first in videos here on RU-vid. Educate yourself here looking up videos. Look for any and all resources. Do not give up. I'm praying for you and your mother 🙏
You can contact DHS and file a MAARC report against POA in any state. It’s a report letting your county and state DHS know that there is financial abuse going on with the incapacitated persons money by the POA. They will immediately look in to it and take POA away from that abuser and it will go to the successor or a trusted family member.
Principal survived her husband. There was an old POA medical who named her brother second. However, since the old POA she got well!! Doctors and nurses said, the current documentation on the recovery should be used. Husband passed and surviving wife name someone’s else as her POA medical. Wife cannot cook for herself, but is competent. Old POA 2nd after husband, is the brother who activated the old POA without his sister’s consent. I am the new POA medical my aunt wants. when visiting my aunt in the assistant living, I was supervised on every visit because he does not want my lawyer/my aunt’s lawyer to talk to my aunt to fulfill her wishes. He cannot do that per the director of the assistant living. How do you revoke?? Thank you
I have a lot of questions about the POA process but for now I wanted to ask about those do it yourself POAs. My oldest sister had my father sign power of attorney to her. Long story short, before his death she zeroed out his bank account and told his creditors he had no money. I estimate he should have had at least $30,000. (I know it’s not much by what you’ve dealt with). I want to understand why she was allowed to do all that with that piece of paper why it didn’t raise red flags with the bank? There were other things I suspect she did that were illegal but that’s my concern for now. Btw we reside in Texas.
A provision was added to the POA document, giving beneficiaries the right to have the POA provide them with an accounting of my father's assets and bank accounts. He did not inform the beneficiaries of their rights. When I began questioning him about missing funds in the Irrevocable trust, he took my father to his attorney to remove me from the Will which ultimately took away my right to information. Any suggestions???
Here’s one for you - Daughter is #1 agent for mom with early onset dementia and son is #2. During Mom’s next health crisis brother starts getting abusive with sister so sister renounces HCPOA causing brother to now be agent #1. Fast forward five years - Brother and wife admit mom to assisted living and promptly abscond to a different state taking all of mom’s resources with them (no FPOA just jointly held checking account). Leaving sister to now care for Mom (a) with no authority and (b) with no funds. Sister actively visits and cares for Mom then Mom incurs serious injury on assisted living property for which Agent #1 is contacted for approval to transport to ER by EMT’s. Agent#1 refuses transport and all hell breaks loose (Mom had sustained vertebral fracture in fall). Daughter (who remember has no authority files reports of negligence to state agencies. Assisted Living retaliates by banishing daughter from Mom’s care. However, Mom still calls local daughter in emergencies - daughter always responds. (remember Agent #1 and wife have abandoned Mom at AL and moved to a different state). Next time daughter is in ER with Mom she notes there is newly signed HCPOA drafted by AL, (witnessed and notarized by AL employees) naming son agent #1 and wife agent #2. (Son and wife and AL really want daughter out of the way). Said “new” HCPOA having been signed 7 years after original dementia diagnosis detailed in mom’s medical records. Somebody’s going to jail.
My uncle coerced my grandma to change her estate and change the trustee & person with POA. She has been diagnosed by multiple doctors as having dementia as of a year ago. My family knows she has dementia but they are brain washing her to sign papers when they sent an estate lawyer over. Is this legal or lawful?
I signed a power of attorney as I was being told it was my will by my lawyer and father. The bank denied knowing about it and my father denied knowing anything about it. After I suspected that I had been tricked into this I immediately got a new attorney and he notified the bank and my attorney that was both mine and my fathers estate attorney, that I had I guess, retaken my rights back. I waited over a year for my father to talk to me about it and apologize but instead he actually said he had no idea about it. I am so heartbroken and it has destroyed our relationship. What can I do for some sort of justice? By the way, I think the attorney I got to help me has either been paid off by my dad or he is doing something to screw me over by his actions and treatment of me. Also, he made me a new will and it isn’t anything like I requested it to be. I found something in it called heggestad petition included in it. Any thing you can recommend?
My sister got poa over my mothers finances after the death of our father. She took everything. The house, the money and everything else. I never knew she had obtained poa until after our mother died. She told me before our mothers funeral that mom gave her everything before she died. Well then i find out mom had a will. My sistet didn't want to give me a copy of the will. Said she "fulfilled moms last wishes" Said our mother couldnt stand the sight of me. Well i got a copy of the will that my sister would not have probated because there "was no estate". My sister lied about what our mother wanted because i was included in her will.... It was then i realized my sister is a narcissist. She is living in our parents house and has everything our father worked all his life for.
An example - my mother as my grandmothers , power of attorney, created an account for herself under the family Merrill Lynch Trust portfolio. She then transferred investments to herself, sold off many as well. She began all of this 5-6 years before my grandmother passed, when we moved her to Chicago to live in a “Home”. My mother even made changes to grandmas will in august 2009 with the help of a crooked attorney. Then, after grandma died, there was no death certificate filed in cook county
She was meant to be co-trustee of the family trust. She eliminated that issue with her changes to the trust documents. She then moved to Switzerland where she illegally acted as the trustee of a US trust (massive tax implications).
The family trust was meant to be a GST trust. The children were payed out during the life of the parents. Upon the death of the parents, the trust would be divided equally between the children who would act as trustee for that portion on behalf of the grandchildren. That is, until they come of age. Instead, my grandmothers 4 children drained the trust and took everything for themselves. Even the death of my grandmother was suspicious 12/26/2016, the day after Christmas when my mother and aunt were together
My sister-in-law used my wife's aunts account for what appeared to be personal expenses and transfers out of the account. There were also unaccounted for credit card payments, but my wifes aunt had bankruptcy against her, so she would not have had any credit cards and any pre-existing credit card bills would have been paid.
My sisters-in-law drained the bank accounts, bought life insurance with only them as the beneficiaries, transferred the car to their name, everything possible to make sure nothing was left when mom died to share . All my husband got was a bill for a third of the funeral.
@Cathy Berry I am so sorry you are in this tortuous situation--bad enough to lose a relative, then pile on horrible family drama stress. It really is disheartening to find out the true nature of some of your kinfolk. I had just quit smoking when mama passed away and it was spool hard to try to be the peacemaker to set some sample to the next generation. Oh, and i also got thrown in the exs side estate affairs and that's another story of after all is done, a good luck in the rear is what I got...Oh and maybe a stab or two in the back. How can people sleep at night?
My friend believes that his sister had a POA over their father, abused the POA. he found out after his death that she transferred land to her name. She’s now the executrix for his probate and has fought him tooth and nail on his request for transparency of the probate case accounting, she and her attorney have filed fraudulent material misrepresentation of facts in court, they even took a supreme court’s ruling and altered and manipulated it to try and extort money from another probate case! What can be done about this criminal activity by the executrix and her probate attorney?
Currently in the same situation Uncle was poa over my grandfather. Put over 200,000 in an Edward Jones account under his own name. Also went through their home and sold everything with no administrator appointed. So we don't really know what to do at this point
Good to hear, Im 80 and in pretty decent health because of the supplements I take, I have a couple of sisters, one is just plain greedy the other is a big spender, I have alot of money coming in the next couple of months, everything points to these two wanting to placing me under a guardianship, is there anyway to throw a wrench into their plans like putting my money into a Trust or LLC? They know I would like to very much help the Needy, Animal Rescue and such, you get the idea, I would like to have these disbursements made before I die, all of it, I want nothing to go to my siblings or a Son who just as greedy as my siblings. Thank you.
Hi, you can clearly spell out your wishes in your will and have a trusted attorney or friend hold on to it so that it doesn't disappear; create a trust with clearly defined actions; if there is someone other than your sisters and son you can rely on to execute your wishes, put advanced directives in place. Any of these would circumvent the greedy sisters and sons. I'm not an attorney....unfortunately, I am learning this after horrible brothers abused the poa trust my mom placed in them when she became incapacitated. A beautiful and smart woman left destitute. I wish I knew and moved back sooner... best of luck to you.
My cousin became Power Of Attorney without my knowledge. She got my mother to sign an IRA cash distribution form 13 days before she died. This POA received the IRA check and signed my mother's name on the check and deposited it into her own account by e-deposit two days before my mother died. Can she be prosecuted in criminal court for theft?
I had a power attorney abuse thats my brother Paulino Galicia Jr. whose living at 20203 Paseo Granada Cerritos Caifornia..my father is living in las vegas .he keep visitimg my dad there and make gambling casinos using my father's money and credit card.This pandemic last year my dad suddenly sick.My brother blocked us tru messenger .he keep isolated my dad until my dad get worst and lost his memory..He had verbal abuse to my dad and prohibited my father not to come here in Philippines even my dad wants to go home .He rather sent my dad to nursing home and there my dad got worsen so he tramsfer to Royal Springs Healthcare Rehab.My dad still critical sick with oxygen as his life support.I got all my ways to reach out my dad tru searching authority to help me.Yet its really hard to fight if you are here in the Philippines. May God chooses good better oerson like you to help us..thank u so much We pray , in Jesus name AMEN.😪🙏🏻
I have given Power of Attorney (POA) to my sister to manage my affairs. As I have special needs and my appeal for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) income is pending, my sister wants to become my Guardian Ad Litem. However, recently my parents accused me of spending their money carelessly, which led to my POA getting involved. She accused me of being a thief and squandering her inheritance. I sought help from a relationship coach who labeled my parents' behavior as financial abuse. Therefore, I have no option but to remove my sister as my POA and find someone else to manage my affairs.
My good friend has 2 daughters and his wife has died. One daughter had an irrevocable trust drawn up for the father naming herself as the only beneficiary. Father didn’t read it carefully and signed off. Can this trust be broken?
My Great grandmother was swindled by her niece who became the power of attorney and sold every single property she owned and then had the nerve to sale the last house that my great grandmother's son is currently living in. The person that bought it is evicting him and he is already old and disabled. I'm doing research to see how we can possibly overturn this.
What did that daughter say, before "I'll take you to lunch after", as she persuades her mother to sign for power of attorney? Thanks for very good presentation ad wording, sir. Only: What does one do, when very many have been abusing one, withholding for many years proper health-care according to one's illness and stress level/Aspergers disability/complex trauma, o that one is weakened on all levels with learnt helpessness, and all former illness symptoms worsened? Knowing enough of the law doesn't seem to help when they all don't abide to it, - when they are authority officials, - when they tell the police to not be available and even to grab me for no reaso and lock me in psychiatry to make it look as though I am inhabile/incapacitated(?right word?) - And when family is sick and not actively/properly supportive, but just on the surface and with negative prejudices about me? - And when doctors fail to write the truth in my journals? - And when I couldn't visit doctors and dentist for years because of not got the Personal Assistance that has been accepted/allowed for once? I so hope you have the time to answer , dear good Sir! I have sought help for 40 years, and not signed up for being abused and having my life destroyed and stolen, but want my life now. I am resourceful, educated, serious, active, willing to do what it takes and what I am able to. Am being kept incapacitated in Severe burnout and sleeplessness,and bad stress-related disease unnecessarilý. I could probably have healed, or at least got well functioning in the disease. Please help by advice or if i can talk with you, from Sweden. (different law, but the basics are the same, and it is mostly the psychological knowledge of the ropes, companionship and empowerment that I need.
I revoked a Power of Attorney from my son David. What if he uses the POA as if he refuse to acknowledge the revocation and still sell my real estate by his POA he got from me before?
My mom is being sneaky with my dad's estate.she already gave his home to her son. She is now trying to get everything, not telling his own 2 kids anything. I by pure accident run across his conservatorship court dates. We had no clue about summons and there are signed waivers we did not sign. His next court date is the 11th and she is about to have the surprise of her life that morning.
about a year and 1/2 ago my whole family came down with Covid! now my brother and I were very close to my aunt who died and my mom died three months before that! we did all the time discussed all the assets going to my brother and I! I took it upon myself to get a durable power of attorney! and we got the assets most of them out of my mom's and my aunt's name assigned over to my brother and I! Long story short that is good thing to happen to me otherwise undeserving relatives brother and sister!my aunt stole money from my grandmaand my brother from Hawaii sued my aunt. I feel the loss to this day! .just because they couldn't see the outcome of their lives does not mean that they should not be honored!
I have a question on how to handle a situation where the financial POA refuses to provide necessary financial resources to the medical POA for the care of the family member (MIL - dimentia). My brother in law (Financial POA) has recently stopped financial aid breaching the contract. Any advice would be so appreciated.
All "thieves" have to START somewhere 💡 No one is safe really. Family members beyond POA, need to take concerns seriously when brought to their attention and not dust it off. Many will take it seriously, unless they too have an "interest" in the "abuse". 💡
Now Sister in law and brother inaw misused all money, parents in will stated that house to be sold and split after he dies. Well, they sold when alive and did not tell him, they put him in a home. Finally received the split from dads pension and it was only 300. He did have more than that he was a saver and miser. Could it be that probate took what all the inlaws spent?
QUESTION PLEASE HELP In regards to inheriting my parents rental property after they pass away, Do I need to pay renters taxes when selling it since that house was not their primary residence? thank you to anybody that can help me answer this question
I'm My mother's POA and she ran out of money to pay for her care in a memory center. I've deposited 7,000. into her account to cover her expenses. When the house sells is it going to be an issue for me to collect my money back from her account? I also opened an account in her name with an additional 700.$ I have to close the first account because my stepdad passed away before I got the POA for Mom with dementia. Just got the death certificate. How long before I have to close it.
If a husband has POA, but is also responsible for the mistreatment and 2 time hospitalization of his spouse, how would the son get POA from her husband?
My 95 year old father who was living with me at the time contracted a serious infection. It made him unstable and he fell, breaking his shoulder. He spent time in the hospital, a rehab center, and now lives in a board and care home where he now has dementia. My brother is trying to coerce him to change his Will or gift family members in his cognitively weakened condition. I am Durable and Medical POA, as well as Executor/Trustee for my Dad. Question: Do I defend and represent my Dad's lifelong wishes which were prior to his fall and the onset of dementia? IOW, if my brother was to coerce him to saying or signing something, is it likely inadmissible and unenforceable? Can my Dad only change his Will or distribute cash when he is of sound mind? BTW - I control all of his cash.
Question: Is someone serving as a POA entitled to renumeration for taking care of finances and health care? If so, how much or what %. If not, why not?
My mother‘s best friend was given POA of my 64-year-old mother who passed away from liver disease. My mother trust her longtime friend of 50 years. I know her well and I do believe she is doing the right thing but my two siblings have a very codependent relationship with my mother, who passed and are intimidating And putting pressure on the POA. I feel like I’m the only one who has not asked for anything and just want my mother‘s best friend to be of service and make the proper decisions without outside influence I met with my brother and the POA last week and he asked me if he could take Mom‘s car (2020 Honda HRV ) immediately the POA said that she already looked up the price of what it would be worth. And is happy to pay me half of what the car would be is that proper? Also, at the same meeting I was tolda that besides the car she my mother has an estate worth over $400,000. I am very reluctant to assume that the assets will be distributed fairly from my understanding. The POA determines what is fair because that is what was in my mother’s will. What is a good way to stay ?educated and knowing if my POA is doing the right thing
What i see has the key components and players spread out over time presenting like a fever dream And i wonder if I've been in a coma since my 96 car accident. Because when i finally returned to school after a head trauma, a group of teachers took turns antagonizing and triggering my punishable reactions until one of them was laughing at me crying, and i spit on him, and was expelled. I eventually was allowed back and he was the principal. He kept his distance but the agents have been present ensuring i struggle for little to no reward till currently. With invalidation, dismissal and ignoring any protests, unless protesting steps into punishable territory. As for assets, I've remained in poverty but cultivate attributes with fortitude. I hate my life.
What do you think of a daughter having POA & future executor, using the POA to buy one of 2 homes (without court approval or telling anyone ) of her mom's, knowing the house she is buying would be willed to her sister and knowing the 2nd home was willed to herself. She buys the house at county assessment and not normal market price. The proceeds were used for the principals medical care but the purchase shorted mom $30-60K of potential $ for care and she ends up with both houses and the sister gets nothing. She also made sure to have all bank accounts as joint.
I hv been POA for a short time although I hv been in control longer… I was using dads account as savings and using my funds for most things how can I NOW separate the two? Could I just divide it? I don’t kno what’s what anymore up to the actual POA enforcement.. but family wants it.. it’s not much
Why are you admitting this in a public forum?!? Have you never heard of the 5th Amendment right to not testify against yourself? You've just admitted to a felony (in most states, if the amount you "used" (stole) is more than $5,000.) You should delete this comment as soon as you read mine and hope your siblings / family don't see this post. Fun fact: typing a comment in a youtube comment section is NOT covered under client-lawyer privilege even if the presenter is a lawyer.
@@billt8504 lollll dude.. stole what??! I talked to atty and he advised me that as long as I hv a LOG I’m within my rights.. admitting??? they KNOWWW .. felony?! Not even close… thx for ur concern tho…..
Elderly vulnerable adults are sweet-talked by a relative to place their name on bank accounts to help pay bills. Next the elder is in an attorney's office signing a new will with the loving relative as sole beneficiary. Soon after the elder and helper return to another attorney's office signing deeds of elder's home and other assets to the greedy family member. Years later when the elder passes, heirs in the original will discover, they too were exploited.
Hi There My son and I are in KY we live in my dads house ! His metnal health has declined over the last 3 months along with his pysical health and is now staying with my sister and brother in law .They obatained power of attorney and have recentlysent us an eviction letter to vacate my dads house ! My son and i have tried to contact my dad but niether my sister or brother in law will allow us to speak with him and as of right now i dont believe my dad has any knowledge of the situation .My brother in law has asserted himself over my dads finances and insurance policies and bank account and credit cards and i dont believe he can do this on his own with out my sister permission or without my dads knowledge what can i do in this situation ?
Its a real sad system when a poa has such power over and old person as in a nasty brother to his mother. When the two daughters live just blocks from her. He has forced her to change the poa to him. He has now been self serving her bank accounts to the tune of 400k. The police just say to bad its a civil matter. That now is costing the sisters 30k so far and no court date in site. He moved into his parents house after getting out of jail for beating his second wife . That was 16 years ago and the bum has never left. Telling his father to get out if he does not like it. I cant believe older people can get sucked in the way they do by the WRONG child . This son is just plain crazy. And the police do nothing. The father called the police 6 times and nothing happened. His wife the slow mother is afraid of him and tells the police he can stay. Not a heathy situation at all. So now the father has passed away and the mother is in a longterm care facility 1 hr away from the daughters . Who by the way work fulltime not him. Is still living in the family's home while she the mother is deemed capacitated of course by him and she is still paying for the house out of her accounts. These kind of guys need to be stopped its disgusting
