APS isinvolved. Over the past 10 tears my mother and sister, who is mentally challenged went to live with my brother and his nasty wife and were paying over 2400.00 a month just to live there. This was after my father passed away. There are 6 of us siblings and we started seeing dramatic changes in my mother and sisters demeanor. A year after my dad passed, the will was changed, the financial advisor, attorney all let go and everything new was set up for their benefit. They put themselves as sole beneficiaries on everything and told my mother to keep it a secret...that it was between the 3 of them. This past summer, I was able to get them away for a month, and in that time my mom said she couldn't stand being there anymore with the verbal abuse suffered at the hands of my good old sil. Not to mention the money, and living high on the hog. We (my siblings and I) were able to get them out while they were on vacation, found a beautiful assisted living facility in Mackinac City, 2 bdrm and it is completely night and day!! They are BACK to themselves after all these years. APS were called regarding the financial transactions, we are getting all the IRS forms from the last 7 years for them both to find out where all their money went. My dad had them set for life. Sister had a special needs trust that is gone and she is left with 3000.00...mom is missing around 385,000.00 right now. Aside from getting the state police involved is there anything I may be missing?? Oh..and my mother put everything back to the way it was originally, will, trust as well as changed POA back to my older sister and younger brother...yayyyy!! SIL is EVIL!! The wolf in sheeps clothing and puts on such a good front for everyone. I just want to make sure I'm covering all my bases to help the investigation go smoothly so we can prosecute to the full extent for what they've done to my mom and sister. Any replies would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks! Sincerely, E
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As to "dumping" her computer...if you mean get rid of it, there are still ways to recreate online activities through the banks, etc. with which she may have had transactions. Their servers likely maintain data for several years. In addition, other financial institutions will have records of transactions made by the relatives. The IRS should have 1099s to reflect where income came from, then law enforcement can backtrace by contacting the issuing entities to get data on the transactions.
This is where law enforcement is necessary and would probably issue subpoenas (duces tecum for records), if necessary.
If she still has her computer, unless she has had the hard drive degaussed, simply deleting everything isn't going to erase the data, unless she completely fills the hard drive with new data and it overwrites the earlier erased data.
Law enformence has people who know how to recover deleted data. It doesn't just disappear unless it's been degaussed.
Not asking to be at all accusatory, I'm legitimately interested. I've been told time and again that if your parent is of sound mind there's not much you can do when you suspect a sibling is financially exploiting them. I've heard the "you may not like their decisions and they may be bad decisions, but it's still their decision" argument a lot from professionals, and it seems the only way to get anything changed is to embark on the costly and emotionally draining journey of trying to have your parent declared incompetent. Would really like to learn more.