Hi,
I have financial LPOA for my father's estate. A year ago social services moved him from two short hospital stays to full time care home, that is funded currently with his savings.
A year prior to this my brother moved in with my father to attempt to care for him. Had been diagnosed with vascular dementia and my brother was meant to be ensuring he had cooked meals, took his medication etc. However due to his own personal mental health issues he was unable to do this for my father, hence him ending up in hospital twice with dehydration and high blood pressure and infections.
I requested last year that my brother start to pay rent and bills for my father's property as prior to my father being placed in the care home, he'd been living there rent and bill free.
However he bluntly refused to pay anything, or want to find a job, in order to cover the costs. I have given him 9 months to sort his plan to relocate. But he has refused to communicate. Today I have visited him, served another letter stating i am acting in behlf of my father. He is now tresspassing, he has no rental agreement, he is not paying any money towards the bills or rent, and he has two months to vacate the house. Any prior verbal agreement with my father to stay there is no longer relevant as he now had permanent care from the care home. However he would not even let me into the property stating I should have made an appointment and given him prior notice of my visit? He does not approve of my requests, and he just made comments along the line of he will seek legal advice etc etc.
I did manage to access the property 20 minutes later via a spare key in a key safe. However upon entry I found the house in an utter mess. Not clean, cluter everywhere, boxes of items all around my father's bedroom, rotting food, piles of dirty clothes.... it was absolutely disgusting. I couldnt even enter the bathroom due to the rancid odour. I'm mortified that he is not even looking after the property. This is extremely upsetting to see my father's house in this state. I'm at the stage now where I really do not know what to do. The ideal scenario would be to rent or sell the house in order to pay for my father's care. I have had some limited legal advice, and was told he is now classed as an Excluded Occupier, has now right to live there and is trespassing. And I was told the police can remove him? This seems very extreme, but as I mentioned he is utterly convinced he has a right to continue living there free of charge.
I wondered what advice anyone can provide on this matter? Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Lee
I have financial LPOA for my father's estate. A year ago social services moved him from two short hospital stays to full time care home, that is funded currently with his savings.
A year prior to this my brother moved in with my father to attempt to care for him. Had been diagnosed with vascular dementia and my brother was meant to be ensuring he had cooked meals, took his medication etc. However due to his own personal mental health issues he was unable to do this for my father, hence him ending up in hospital twice with dehydration and high blood pressure and infections.
I requested last year that my brother start to pay rent and bills for my father's property as prior to my father being placed in the care home, he'd been living there rent and bill free.
However he bluntly refused to pay anything, or want to find a job, in order to cover the costs. I have given him 9 months to sort his plan to relocate. But he has refused to communicate. Today I have visited him, served another letter stating i am acting in behlf of my father. He is now tresspassing, he has no rental agreement, he is not paying any money towards the bills or rent, and he has two months to vacate the house. Any prior verbal agreement with my father to stay there is no longer relevant as he now had permanent care from the care home. However he would not even let me into the property stating I should have made an appointment and given him prior notice of my visit? He does not approve of my requests, and he just made comments along the line of he will seek legal advice etc etc.
I did manage to access the property 20 minutes later via a spare key in a key safe. However upon entry I found the house in an utter mess. Not clean, cluter everywhere, boxes of items all around my father's bedroom, rotting food, piles of dirty clothes.... it was absolutely disgusting. I couldnt even enter the bathroom due to the rancid odour. I'm mortified that he is not even looking after the property. This is extremely upsetting to see my father's house in this state. I'm at the stage now where I really do not know what to do. The ideal scenario would be to rent or sell the house in order to pay for my father's care. I have had some limited legal advice, and was told he is now classed as an Excluded Occupier, has now right to live there and is trespassing. And I was told the police can remove him? This seems very extreme, but as I mentioned he is utterly convinced he has a right to continue living there free of charge.
I wondered what advice anyone can provide on this matter? Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Lee
