My older sister is DPOA over my 96-year-old mother, who has congestive heart failure. She has and still is using her power, and my mother's lack of knowledge, because my father always did everything. My father has been gone for 10 years, and my sister cut communication off with me 8 years ago. During this time her and her 47-year-old daughter moved into her home for about 9 months, not paying a cent for bills, and verbally abused her, calling her senile, then not talking to her at all, to hiding her cell phone so she couldn't call anyone. The police were called to the house many times. Then my mother commented on the police and even APS I called them to say that she would like me to come over from time to time, but my sister didnt want me there to see her at all. My sister made false statements to mothers doctor and the Greenville police about me trying to get me arrested on grand larceny charges. She told the police that I was mentally unstable, going to the extent of having her ex living in Fla call 911, saying I had threatened to murder her, calling me a psychopath and career criminal

Since all the above has happened, I called APS several times; they either wouldn't go or went and said unfounded, with my mother raising concerns. Mother recently had to call an ambulance to come get her one night, she was very sick and was admitted to the hospitial. My sister does not share anything with me, and Mom has said she is scared she will die in the house alone. My sister has maliciously used a 15-page DPOA paper, which my mother does not understand, to get her name on the house, all accounts, and everything. She took out a $75000.00 line of credit on the house for luxury renovations, things that the house didnt need, but to increase the value while my mother pays the monthly payments. She has spent my mother's money on herself and her daughter. She got VA benefits for our mother, but my mother has no idea where they are or how much she has. At the current time, I am waiting for bilateral knee replacement due to mobility problems. Also, having a husband with CKD keeps me from doing what I would like but also scares my sister, who might tell the police untrue things to have me arrested

I wish I had the money to hire an attorney, and my mother would not have gone through this. I have tried to get help everywhere I know of without success. My sister lives 30 miles away from our mother in a house she conveniently took my mother to the closing to put her name on the mortgage so she and her daughter would qualify. My sister's daughter does not care for my mother and forbids her from coming to that house. I was very close to my father and promised him I would make sure my mother was ok, and I feel I am letting him down. My sister has split the entire family apart, and she doesn't care. All she is waiting for is for mother to pass away so everything will transfer to her. She treats it like a business deal with no regard for human life, and this is her mother she lets live alone.

I wish I could get in front of a judge and be representing by a lawyer, I have all the proof that I am stating to show. My sister knows I do not have the funds for a lawyer, so she sits back thinking she is above the law. She has taken what should be rightfully mine, but the big picture is the way mother has had to live. My father passed away in December 2014. I never left his side for 5 days. I stayed there talking to him as he was in a coma from a stroke on the 5th evening. He was not monitored but checked every hour. The nurse came in at 10:30 pm and told me my father was gone, and I was still talking. I really do not remember anything else. My sister was in Georgia and didnt return to Greenville for 2 weeks. I just wish there was help for low-income seniors/people to make these wrongs right. Legal Aid does not handle these kinds of cases, nor does any other place. So many people get by with abusing their power over an elderly person so much, I never knew until I went through this, and family at that. I would have never thought my sister would do this but money changed her into a very selfish person

This is wrong, the way mother is done. I just wish there were resources to help. The way my sister has done has limited my time with my mother, and even she has gotten my mother to beleive somethings talking negatively about my mother and me sometimes will fuss at me for no reason. All I have tried to do is help because I love my mother.