Elder Financial Abuse

Inheritance Entitlement Syndrome – Call it Theft – 2

Susan was faced with a horrifying situation, watching as her brother used their father’s gradual decline as an opportunity to chip away at the family’s farming assets. “Unfortunately, my father had a business partnership with my brother,” she says. “Gradually I realized that my father was becoming demented and that the money was disappearing. My brother was living the high life, with TVs in every room for the kids, an in-ground pool and flash cars.”, states Susan. “I had power of attorney over my father’s affairs, together with my uncle. We sought legal advice and tried mediation, but my brother…

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Elder Abuse

Inheritance Entitlement Syndrome – Call it Theft

When Anne discovered that her older brother had put their elderly mother in a nursing home, it was the dramatic climax of months of financial elder abuse that ended only with her mother’s death. Talking about it on the phone from her home, she describes how her brother falsely claimed a carer’s allowance and other benefits before she became aware of the extent of the problem. “I believe he had forged my mother’s signature and changed her will,” Anne says, explaining how she struggled through the courts in the hope of protecting her mother and the mother’s assets. Anne says…

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