My father in law has dementia and Parkinson's and several years ago we put powers of attorney in place so my husband and I could look after this health and wealth. This has run in the background without any problems until his wife said she was taking his housekeeping debit card away from him and recommended we do the same with his personal accounts as he couldn't remember what he was spending his money on. So we had a family conference and came to an agreement with her and her son that Dad would pay into the joint account over twice as much as her because his income was over twice as much. The joint account was to pay for respite for dad as well. This worked for 6 months and then she started to worry about the dwindling balance in the joint account, she asked me to look into the account so we would agree to pay in more money. We discovered she was overspending on things and tried to get her to agree to either reduce the spending or both of them jointly fund more money into the account, this was refused. Then to our disbelief she walked Dad into the bank and building society and removed the power of attorney on both accounts and cancelled our access, also has told us via her son, that if we darken her door she will call the police, not that this is stopping us seeing dad. We have complained to both the bank and building society but both say that Dad was able to answer the identification questions and refuse the reversal of this action. Dads NHS caseworker is taking a long time to get back to us, Any ideas anyone?