My Brother Is Stealing From My Mother, What Can I Do? – Bott & Associates

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00:01 [Music] Yes, it’s a very common theme. We hear it all the time. And stealing from your parents, obviously, I think horrible. Um, but what tends to happen is mom is now disabled, unable to make decisions very clearly. So, some child steps in and I’ll take care of bills, mom, and they have checking account. They start writing checks to themselves. They start using her credit card. and all of a sudden it’s like thousands of dollars, right? What you can do if you are the other child that notices this is

00:36 certainly getting some planning done. Either if she’s able to make decisions, let’s create some powers of attorney so somebody else is paying those bills. If she’s unable to make decisions anymore, let’s open up a guardianship so that the responsible child is going to take care of her, not the child that’s stealing money from her. [Music]