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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well my MIL went on spending sprees with GMIL's money as soon as MIL got POA. Maybe I can prove that and give evidence of her big inheritance if someone comes after us. I hope these laws get changed sooner rather than later because we're going to do in the most vulnerable of the sandwich generation-those who were abused and neglected, who are stuck helping the abuser at the cost of their marriages and children.[/quote]

This is the OP - I've been stressed out about this since I first uncovered it. Everything I'm seeing says get a lawyer immediately, and buy all of these life insurance policies and end of life policies for your parents. We can't afford that! I cannot believe that this is constitutional. My mother has stolen from me since I was a child. Every bit of money I ever got in a Christmas or birthday card, while I was living at home, was "borrowed," spent on cigarettes and bingo, and never returned. I was kicked out of the house at 16. (but not for 10 years, which is what PA requires in terms of proving abandonment - crazy). My mom and her husband spent their paychecks on guns, the latest TV / technology gadget, and entertainment and our utilities were regularly turned off. I have worked full time since I was 13 years old (lying to get a worker's permit was easier then). There was never money for school clothes, that was left for my paternal grandmother to take care of. I would buy laundry detergent to clean my own clothes and my mom would use all of it, fill it with water, and then I'd go to school in smelly clothes. I worked two jobs at a time in high school, slept about 5 hours a night in order to accommodate my homework. My mom did not allow me to participate in any extra-curricular activities so that I could take care of my brothers, for free. But not so she could work (she did not work) but so that she could go to bingo. And none of this is to mention the abuse, emotional, physical, and sexual at the hands of one of her many husbands. I will GO TO JAIL before I let her or the state take food out of my kids' mouth so that I can take my hard earned cash and throw it down that black hole. If I were a millionaire, I'd take care of her. But I won't sacrifice my children for her - not even so much as to scale back on a single birthday or whatever. HELL no.

So yeah, I hope these laws are overturned.  [/quote]

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