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[quote=Anonymous]When do you get to say enough is enough?

My fathers mother and I are very close and have been my entire life. Her son/my father has not seen her in 20 years, and rarely calls her. She was recently declared unsound and the courts have asked a guardian to step forward from the family to manage her care and assests.

After all her children declined the responsibility, the grandchildren nominated my cousin who lives closest to her and is involved with her the most. We are all adults with families of our own. We all strongly believe her care has been grossly mismanaged by her children and they now should step aside. We don't care about her estate after she passes and have agreed to sign documents turning everything over to our parents when she passes.

All was right, the hearing is scheduled. Until my father comes out of left field and says he now wants to be guardian. He doesn't have a car, a house, doesn't even live in the same state and has not even a bank account. He is essentially homeless and like I said has disappeared from his mother's life for 20 years. I told him its a mistake and that he will made to look like a fool in court due to his own financial mismanagement, unemployment history and lack of contact with his mother. He is relentless in the fact that now shortly before she passes, he be in control of her estate. I can not support this but also can't betray my father. I don't know what to do or say to make him understand how understanding, shady, conniving, horrible this looks, to just show up in the final hour with not even a pot to piss in and think you can be responsible for her care. I am also worried because he is her child, and we are grandchildren he could genuinely be awarded this. I'm at a loss over what to do. Any advice??
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