dont know what else to do to help my mom

United States
January 8, 2012 10:02am CST
The year of 2011 started off really bad for my wonderful mother. First she and her husband (my stepdad) had taken care of his brother for 3 years, He had had a stroke and needed care. This man loved his brother and my mom and they took really good care of him taken care of all of his needs. He paid them to care for him and let them live in a house he had bought with his money and drive him around in a brand new car that he bought himself (all in sound mind). This was my moms, my stepdads, and my stepdads brother's home, they had their life their for the full 3 years. all the time while my mom (being the main caretaker) was taken care of this man, his family from chicago never called or visited or even seemed to care about him except for to ask him for money which of course he would send. Sometime in the 3rd year, the man got really sick and started to lose his mind, he wanted to move to chicago and called his family to come get him. My mom would tell him " you can do what you want but your family is just gonna put you in a nursing home and take all of your money" he didnt believe him but one day his son came and got him and took him to chicago, the next day he was in a nursing home. He got really sick and depressed, when he started to lose his mind, the mans son took him to a lawyer and got power of attorney over him convincing his dad to sign it over to him in Illinois overturning my moms power of attorney in Alabama. A week later, a cop was at the house with a notice to move out. My mom and her husband were still planning to get the man back with a bunch of court dates and such all while buying and fixing up a house with her 401K to accomadate the man and his disabilities. The house was completely wheelchair friendly. Two weeks later, the man passed away and accusations were brought that my mom killed him (her in AL and him in IL) and also stole a bunch of money from him including the car (which then got taken away) and the house that they bought and fixed up to accomodate him. Which noone of it was true. The car was bought by the man and had his name on it and the house with my moms 401K. There are still alot of unresolved issues concerning this. If all that wasnt bad enough, their brand new house that my mom spent almost all of her 401K on was completely wiped off the slab in the April 27 tornados. she lost everything. Still not done yet, in september, my mom lost her husband in a horrible car crash that sent him down a 150 ft. ravine.My mom can not take anymore. I dont know what to do for her, somedays she will seem fine then a son will come on that remainsc
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
8 Jan 12
I have seen this sort of thing happening all the time, I think it is outrages that family always think they have automatic right to parent estates, I don't believe that, I think the people around you ate that time of your life are the ones you should leavr things to, i have seen some ugly situations when it comes to peoples estates.