About seven years ago my daughter became I’ll at her house and was hospitalized for several months. After several fights with family members about her care the medical team made me her mother HCS and Power of attorney. The rest of my children husband and other family members wondered around and will be here occasionally. Recently they have descended on the house demanding to disperse of her personal effects and cats as they see fit. The scream and rant until they get what they want. Any advise I considered calling the police however they have always been useless. They want to give her cats away to anyone someone.
You keep saying her house. If she is the only one on the deed and you have paperwork she signed giving u POA, then ur in charge. (Paperwork should have witnesses and a notary) To protect her property you can have locks put on the door. You can call the police if anyone enters the property. You can ask that all things taken be returned. If not, you will call in the police, what they are doing is stealing. May want to put no trespassing signs around the property.
- what is your daughter's health issue specifically?
- what is her cognitive condition now?
- who has been taking care of the cats up until now?
- why is your family at odds at how you are managing her care?
If your daughter didn't assign a MPoA prior to her health crisis, no one but her can legally give you this authority, and she has to have mental capacity to do so. Do you mean you became her legal guardian through the courts?
FYI the police don't get involved with civil issues such as family members arguing over material possessions.
So something(to me)just doesn't make sense here. Perhaps you can better explain.
As to the dispersing of your daughters personal items, like Grandma1954 said below, that is typically done after a person dies and not before.
And if her cats are being taken care of where they're at, I'm not sure why other family members are wanting to remove them.
I don't think we're getting the full story here so it's going to be hard for us strangers online to give you any proper answers. You may need to fill in some more of the details.
1. Is your daughter able to make decisions on her own?
2. You mention husband. Is this YOUR husband or HER husband? If it is her husband he is the one that should be making decisions for her not you. (If she can not make decisions for herself, if she can then she is the one that should be doing so)
3. Dispersing personal effects typically is done AFTER a person has died not while they are still living. If they have made out a will the Executor will manage that and your POA such as it is will no longer be in effect. If they have not made out a will the legal next of kin would usually be responsible.
4. As far as giving away a pet. If your daughter is able to care for the pet, if it gives her comfort getting rid of it would be a mistake. However if it is not in her best interest to keep the pet then rehoming it is a good plan.
Again a little more detail will be helpful