Thanks bpcyclist, what my sister did was she encouraged my parents to set their will up in a way that gave her all the power over them and their money should they be deemed incompetent. My father was beginning to decline and he really did not understand the kind of power he gave her and my mother was mentally decining and she really had no idea how my sister could abuse the power she was given. My mother and even my father would be absolutely livid to learn what my sister ended up doing. I KNOW my parents had no idea my sister was withdrawing money constantly from my mother's bank and liquidating all her investments so she could take that money as well. My sister and her daughter were even using my mother's credit card as if it was their own. My sister basically went through most of their money except for a few hundred dollars. Their home and personal property went into a Trust and she is Trustee and she has been liquidating their possessions and I also noticed things missing when I finally did get in their home.
I did hire a lawyer to take her to probate to get an accounting. She did not want to provide an accounting of the years she had been appointed POA. She only wanted to provide the last year of their lives. The judge did not like her at all and made her provide an accounting going all the way back and she decided that when she had to reveal all these withdrawls that she would blame them on me. That is even though she had set up a joint account where she could access my mother's money and I had no idea what bank my mother had an account in and I had never touched any of my mother's money. She accused me of taking my mother to the bank, I never did and then she accused me of taking my mother bank card. I had no idea there was a bank card. My sister had the bank card and her and her daughter used it when THEY needed money to pay their bills and god know what else. Most people THINK the person has to prove it, it's not like that, instead I had to prove I did NOT do those withdrawls. And to bring this to a trial it would literally eat up whatever there is left and I would have to pay the legal fees. This is because she covered that too in that the will states any effort to change what is written will cost the person questioning the will. Just to do what I did to get an accounting to at least find out what happened to their money cost me $5,000 in legal fees.
I could never do the kind of deceit and stealing and lying my sister has chosen to do.
I was just wanting to think about how does this lying evolve, from shame or just greed or what? Pretty much every discussion with her is manipulative and deceitful.
|