My sisters and I are in a predicament. We are in California. My father is very ill with Parkinson's Disease. He is in the hospital unable to swallow anything without it going into his lungs. He will have a PEG tube put into his stomach. He must have 24 hour a day care afterward. My mother has "lost it" so to speak. One week ago she agreed to go into a psychiatric hospital with no diagnosis as of yet. My parents at one time, had my oldest sister executor of their estate. My mother had been ill for several years with no one being the wiser. She became very anrgy at us girls because we refused to take her physical violence towards us any longer. While were not around on a regular basis for about a 4 month period, she gave our brother conservatorship over our dads medical decisions if she could not make them. Now, our brother has taken over EVERYTHING. He has my mothers keys to the house, her purse, he has control over everything. We cannot afford a lawyer. Our brother is a 2 time felon from violence. He has our dads guns in his house which is a major no-no. Our brother had a 20 year absence from the family while his was doing his drugs and whatever else. Does he have the legal right to take over their affairs? Or are we just as entitled to take care of things for them? The doctors have no diagnosis for my mother until they can get an MRI. She is very afraid of having it doen. We don't want our parents things lost due to lack of attention to their affairs.
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08-12-2000, 05:26 PM
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