So I have slightly different version of the question. One brother has medical POA and and another brother has fiduciary POA. My poor mom is dying at home with hospice. They are giving me visiting rights of 2 hrs day. Initially they locked me out and when I went to the police they said they couldn't help me because of POA. This not there is not legal, but the other one with fiduciary powers basically has all rights of the house, my moms, until her last breath. It feel like that saying occupancy is 90% and they have it. The medical POA is living in the house. When I am not there, nobody is, except a paid care taker. I don't want my mother to take her last breaths alone. It appears out the four children I am the only wanting and willing to be there. This of course is game of power, and I feel powerless. Can the fiduciary POA kick me out of the house?
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You haven't said why your brothers are excluding you and you probably have some inkling of this. Often it IS a power play, but it hails from years of family dynamics and animosity. I suppose you have appealed to their sense of honor and fairness in terms of allowing you more time for the sake of your mother? Or that they should be able to acknowledge that your mom would want you there? Only you know these things and less you reveal them to us. You haven't shared what you have tried.
You also haven't specified what your mom is dying from or how aware she is of you not being there more. lf she has some form of dementia, she's not going to remember you being there or not. You have to consider that you may be doing this primarily for yourself, although innocently in the process producing a stream of negative energy just because of the way your brothers feel. My mom hated when my sister visited, but sister did it anyway. My mom said that she was showing her intentions by ignoring my sister and sitting like a bump on a stump not willing to speak to her when she came over. My sister assumed that this meant it wasn't so bad. But the negative energy she left in her wake upon her departure was something I had to deal with for 2 to 4 hours afterward, as my mother continued fuming, even in her dementia, that I had not kept my sister out in the first place (which I had been legally disallowed from doing by the court).
So, you see, it's never simple. I would suggest you try the humanitarian angle with your brothers which would include why SHOULDN'T you be there if you're willing and that you believe it calms your mom, etc. lf you guys can't agree and there's no time to go to court to plead your case, just be aware that the energy in the room regarding you and your brothers BEFORE, DURING and AFTER you're there IS affecting your mom at some level. You nay HAVE TO be the bigger, wiser, more compassionate one and back off, as hard as that will be for you since you obviously care so deeply.
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