Advice please. complicated legal issue.

[Anonymous]

Father suffers from dementia now, but years ago saw a psychiatrist to treat depression.
Father is well off.
Psychiatrist made a great impression on him and he really liked her. She asked him to marry her. That is not allowed in the state that they live in. Psychiatrist dies in bad car accident before marriage, father sad, psychiatrist's sister, an internist steps in and to make a long story short, marries my father. I repeat, he has money. Internist might have treated my father, but only after she was introduced to him by her sister.
Internist would argue that she only treated him as a courtesy, prescribing simple meds here and there. Now internist has him off his meds and is taking charge of everything. Internist was bankrupt before marriage. Has father supporting her kids and is giving some money to her ex.
Is there any grounds for arguing the upcoming mess in court.

[Anonymous]

If your father truly has dementia get a lawyer.

This is all so weird, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your father truly has dementia get a lawyer.

This is all so weird, OP.

I know it is odd, but some lawyers say we have no case. The main offender is dead. But to me, father is seeing this new wife as if it is the psychiatrist. He thinks it is the same thing, but deceased sister started the mess.

[Anonymous]

Hi OP - I would recommend getting in touch with an elder lawyer to talk through the legal issues here.

[Anonymous]

Not sure you have standing to do anything. It does sound effed up though. Unless father was incapable of consenting to marriage (and it's a low threshold), a wife trumps everyone else in terms of money and control.

[Anonymous]

OP here. He seems to be absorbed in them because they ARE (were) doctors and that is exactly what the board of medicine says is the problem. BTW, they are (were) horrible doctors with a few law suits each (I am also in health care).

[Anonymous]

Elder lawyer, stat.

[Anonymous]

Attorney and report to the medical licensing board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Attorney and report to the medical licensing board.

I thought of that but the most guilty one is dead. I have a feeling that they will tell me that there is nothing they can do. This whole thing is so icky.

[Anonymous]

What is it you want to do? Keep your father from giving other people his money (other than you)? Protect him from his now-wife? Argue that his dementia is so advanced that the wedding should be annulled? I can't think of any legal reason an internist who may or may not have treated a man shouldn't marry him. The psychiatrist, maybe. But an internist? Sorry, this is just the age-old story of an older rich man marrying a younger gold-digger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is it you want to do? Keep your father from giving other people his money (other than you)? Protect him from his now-wife? Argue that his dementia is so advanced that the wedding should be annulled? I can't think of any legal reason an internist who may or may not have treated a man shouldn't marry him. The psychiatrist, maybe. But an internist? Sorry, this is just the age-old story of an older rich man marrying a younger gold-digger.

There were legal reasons that they should not have had a relationship and the psychiatrist could have lost her license over it in that state.
The rules for a psychiatrist are no relationship, forever, and for internists, they have to wait three years from the last treatment.

[Anonymous]

Ethically, not legally.

OP, what is your goal here? To protect your father from harm? Or to get what you think belongs to you?

If the former, talk to a lawyer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is it you want to do? Keep your father from giving other people his money (other than you)? Protect him from his now-wife? Argue that his dementia is so advanced that the wedding should be annulled? I can't think of any legal reason an internist who may or may not have treated a man shouldn't marry him. The psychiatrist, maybe. But an internist? Sorry, this is just the age-old story of an older rich man marrying a younger gold-digger.

There were legal reasons that they should not have had a relationship and the psychiatrist could have lost her license over it in that state.
The rules for a psychiatrist are no relationship, forever, and for internists, they have to wait three years from the last treatment.

The board can't enforce any of this stuff legally? IOW, it is just a set of rules with no consequence?

[Anonymous]

OP stop focusing on the dead doctor, she's dead, yeah, she was wrong but she's dead so you can't punish her. Get an elder lawyer, quickly...

[Anonymous]

Did Internist ever treat your father?

Get a lawyer regardless to deal with dementia issue. Makes no difference is dr or not. More important if she was treating him or not but more importantly when dementia was documented.