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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The short version: Can I charge my hourly rate of $80 for missing work and missing opportunities for extra work on the weekends while helping (not for just visiting) a parent.

Long version: I recently had to move my father frim a 3 bedroom condo he rented after selling his house a few years ago to a one bedroom apartment in assisted living. It was a huge task of first declutterring, throwing away so much, giving things to charities, hiring movers, etc. It’s been exhausting and I had to take time off work and work weekends. My husband and teenage kids all had to pitch in and help as well.

One sibling is appreciative and told my dad he needs to pay me my hourly rate which is $80 an hour. I had the opportunity to pick up extra work the weekends I was helping my father but declined. My father agreed right away and wrote me a check for $8000.

That sibling also said every time I take him to a doctors appointment and miss work, deal with his facility or other things I need to start charging and I should go back and charge for all the time iff of work I had to do in the last three years.   My father agreed and because I am actually on his bank account he said I should just write a check from that account to myself.

So I made a spreadsheet of all the dates, hours, visits, etc. I would never charge for all the hours just visiting him and spending time with him. It’s all the times that have cost me financially. I also have spent into the thousands over the years just picking up things for him when we go to the grocery store that he likes or we are at Target and he needs a few things. But IB never kept track of that and feel like it is too late to charge anything now.

The issue is we have another sibling who does nothing and never visits. My father’s will divides everything equally. I am worried that sibling will eventually complain too much money was spent in assisted living and his care, then look at these payments and sue.

No one has a POA right now. [/quote]

Did your father charge you when you were young and in need of help and care?  I cannot fathom charging my parents for helping them.  This is  "Donald Trump" ME AGA greed.

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