Hi
Around 8 years ago or so and with the agreement of my father (my mum had already died), my sister set up an LPA where she, myself and my brother were the trustees.
At that time my father's mental health was ok and he was still able to make sound judgments.
Almost immediately my sister was making transactions which were not directly for the benefit of my father the donor who was living alone at the time, and monthly expenditure was exceeding my father's income.
I made my objections at the time and demonstrated how if this continued my dad's bank would be depleted within a few years.
To cut a long story short, my sister continued to use my dad's bank account for personal use and also taken more than £6k (professing that my dad had said it is ok for her to do so).
My dad is now in a very expensive private care home and I have organised his investments (registering the LPA as necessary) and am managing his money as best I can in order to pay for his care and manage expenditure. His dementia is now at a stage where he cannot make sound judgments, but I noted in January that some £300 had been spent from his account by my sister. I challenged her and she said that dad had agreed it owing to her expenses at Christmas.
My sister and I have fallen out over the years because I have challenged the legality of the transactions but she seems to hide behind a delusion of entitlement because of everything she does for dad.
In light of my dad's worsening dementia I'm thinking about contacting the Public Guardian to have the LPA revoked as it stands, and perhaps getting an independent trustee to take over my dad's finances, thus ensuring my dad's finances are safe and secure.
Is it possible to do this?
Around 8 years ago or so and with the agreement of my father (my mum had already died), my sister set up an LPA where she, myself and my brother were the trustees.
At that time my father's mental health was ok and he was still able to make sound judgments.
Almost immediately my sister was making transactions which were not directly for the benefit of my father the donor who was living alone at the time, and monthly expenditure was exceeding my father's income.
I made my objections at the time and demonstrated how if this continued my dad's bank would be depleted within a few years.
To cut a long story short, my sister continued to use my dad's bank account for personal use and also taken more than £6k (professing that my dad had said it is ok for her to do so).
My dad is now in a very expensive private care home and I have organised his investments (registering the LPA as necessary) and am managing his money as best I can in order to pay for his care and manage expenditure. His dementia is now at a stage where he cannot make sound judgments, but I noted in January that some £300 had been spent from his account by my sister. I challenged her and she said that dad had agreed it owing to her expenses at Christmas.
My sister and I have fallen out over the years because I have challenged the legality of the transactions but she seems to hide behind a delusion of entitlement because of everything she does for dad.
In light of my dad's worsening dementia I'm thinking about contacting the Public Guardian to have the LPA revoked as it stands, and perhaps getting an independent trustee to take over my dad's finances, thus ensuring my dad's finances are safe and secure.
Is it possible to do this?
