They have accused me of stealing a significant amount of money from my mom as I was on her account in case my sister could not take care of the account. Since then they have sent a letter from a lawyer to say that my mom doesn't want to see or look at my face until I repay the money which I have not stolen. They have also made it so I cannot call and they are removing pictures of me from the property. Is there anything I can do to see my mom. There are no charges or I've not been arrested and I think they are doing this as I've questioned how they were spending my mom's money. I believe that my brother-in-law set up the fraudulent account with my name and someone else's name, that I've never heard of, as my mom accidently gave my sister my SS #. My mom has memory problems and my sisters would not let me get my mom checked out before when I had the health care POA. They are slowing removing me from my mom's memory. What can I do? I am unemployed so therefore I have no money to hire a lawyer, but I believe they use my mom's money for their purposes. Also, my sister who takes care of my mom is an alcoholic and recovering (maybe) drug addict. Would like to get professional care for my mom. Please any help would be appreciated.
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You also say you WERE POA and that was changed, that your mother was taken by your other two sisters to change that. Was that "taking of Mom" to change things done when there was already a diagnosis of dementia? Because that would not be legal.
I think if you have gone to all authorities, do keep careful records of that fact, a diary if you will. And you are left with throwing yourself upon the mercy of your two sisters. You can beg to please just be allowed to see your Mother so she knows you love her, even if visits are supervised. Unless your two sisters are EVIL I cannot imagine them denying you this.
Application for guardianship of your mother when currently she has two siblings already in charge as POA for Health and POA for financial is very unlikely to get you anywhere. If you apply for guardianship with lawyers, through the courts, it may run as high as 5,000 to 10,000. Those funds could be reimbursed if you won the case, by proving your sisters took advantage financially and physically of a demented Mom after her diagnosis, through your Mom's estate, but that is IF you won your case. That would be a terribly long road to travel.
Myself I would throw myself upon the mercy of my sisters unless I thought them both evil and abusive. I would beg to see my Mom on scheduled visits whether they be supervised visits or not. I would leave my Mom, if able to see her, out of any sibling wars going on. It could only tear her to pieces and do her great harm. I am so sorry for all you are going through.
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If they did open an account representing themselves as you, this is criminal and you don't need an attorney, you need to file police reports for identity theft.
I would be checking my credit reports to see if they have obtained any other accounts you are not aware of.
I did mention this to the Police but they didn't really feel there was anything they could do, maybe I need to revisit that.
I have also called the credit people and filed a report as well.
I just want to see my mom.
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