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[quote=Anonymous]We are working through the details prior to divorce, and have a minor child. Divorce is due to abuse by DH, which he has admitted privately but is telling people that things just didn’t work out.

DH’s paternal side has a strong history of early dementia. His dad’s early dementia started impacting his day-to-day life when FIL was 55 or so (eloping, car wrecks) and he was fully incapacitated before 70. However, his body is quite healthy. He is in a memory care facility and MiL spends most of her days caring for him.

My late night concern is that DH’s behavior was pretty unpredictable and increasingly angry before we separated, and I fear that was an early sign of future dementia. He will be in his early to mid 50s when DD is in HS. DH doesn’t have many close friends and his living relatives are his parents, and I don’t imagine his mom will be able to care for him in her 90s, especially if FiL is still alive.

Do I have any legal responsibility to care for him or intervene if he ends up having dementia? What about my moral responsibility?

I’m imagining a scenario where DH has partial custody of DD, DD can’t drive, and I’m suddenly trying to intervene to keep an ex-DH safe and get Dd out of there but am powerless to do so. What do people do in a situation like this?[/quote]

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