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NP - If my MIL had a stroke and needed help moving my DH would not look to me for an excuse for getting out of his obligations to his parents and he knows it.  DH, DC and I would be there.  Do you expect your DC to treat you like this?  Model the behavior you would like to see in your children when you are old and enfeebled. [/quote]

Thanks for the advice, but my own parents, and, for that matter, the in-laws, are modeling the behavior that all of us should emulate. They have, for example, paid off their mortgages. If they should, unfortunately, develop cognitive disabilities we wouldn't let things go on until there's a crisis. What made all the work for OP wasn't her elderly father's health, it was the foreclosure, which could have been avoided. [/quote]

?? So, you believe that the elderly father should not have been helped at all just because of his fiscal irresponsibility? Or, just that the one brother was justified in not helping, letting the entire burden fall on someone else's shoulders, like op or even the state. Seems heartless.

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