Hugely complicated family situation that I could probably write a dissertation on and still not cover everything, but to cut a long story short, my partner's brother is off the rails, has enormous problems with money and regularly flies into a rage and does things including:
- vandalising MIL's car and other property
- running up fines and passing them on to MIL
- contacting DP's work with a fabricated complaint about him
- adding DP as a director of his company without consent
- continually asking MIL for money (in the thousands)
- asking where exactly I work (in a context which implied he was planning to try and cause problems for me)
- verbal abuse
- threats of violence
Unfortunately the majority of his behaviour is targeted at MIL (financial abuse, verbal abuse and property damage), who finds it very difficult to say no to him. I'm 99% sure she wouldn't pursue any legal avenues to protect herself.
With my partner it's more a case of intermittent diatribes against him and trying to cause problems, manipulation, threats. He's just very unstable and I'm anxious about what he may do next.
I wondered if there's any legal action we could take to protect ourselves from either harassment or any type of fraud?
Does it have to be worse than this to justify an injunction and is DP weakening his case by communicating with his brother?
It's very sad as we love him and want him to seek help, but he seems to be a long way off doing that. He's lashing out, getting into huge difficulties financially and being very underhand in trying to dig himself out of a hole. There's more to it including legal stuff but I think this is already potentially very identifying. Please advise if you can.