Such a long convoluted tale but in a nutshell - my mum is approaching 80. She is in an extremely frail state physically but is mentally sound. She lives 200 miles away from me with my brother and her partner of 30 years. My cousin lives near to them and is very close to mum. I visit mum once a week (have 4 dc and chronically ill dh) but I also spend some of that time visiting my dad. It means I only get to see each of them for about an hour a week.
Cousin rang tonight to say mum is very upset - there has been a big row between mum and my brother. Oh, I'm getting bogged down with detail. What I wanted to ask was is there any way to rush through the registration of an enduring power of attorney. Brother is being aggressive and hostile to mum, her partner is trying to pressurise her into signing some valuable shares to him. Cousin told me that she passed him a note which said she was afraid :( Cousin also told me a lot has been happening which mum has kept from me - partly because she thinks I have enough on my plate but also because, despite everything, she favours my brother over me so will never speak ill of him to me.
I had no idea things were this bad. We need to protect her from these awful people - working on the best way to do it. But thought if we registered the power of attorney asap at least the partner would get nowhere with his attempts to get her to sign stuff
Sorry for scant details, it really is very involved. Please can anyone advise re rushing through power of attorney. Oh and mum has been admitted to hospital tonight with breathing difficulties - cousin says she's in a bad way.
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morbeus · 09/11/2014 02:50
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