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Control Over My Parents' Finances

USA, Alabama and Louisiana

Cw: domestic abuse

Not sure this is the right sub for my question so please lmk if there's somewhere else I should ask instead. It's a complicated problem of financial management, legal stuff, medical stuff, and domestic abuse.

I'm trying to help my mom. She's being financially abused by my dad. My dad has an online shopping addiction and also loses a lot of money in day trading, so you could say he has a gambling addiction too. My deceased grandma left my dad and his siblings a trust. Recently my dad convinced my uncle (my grandma's executor) to write him a check for the full amount of his share of the trust. This money was supposed to take care of my parents in their old age but now it will enable my dad's shopping and gambling problems. He's been running up a lot of debt. Meanwhile my mom is losing weight because she can't even afford food.

My dad is 70 years old and experiencing cognitive decline. This is supported by doctors' diagnoses of his medical condition although it's not dementia or alzheimers or anything. My mom believes his shopping/gambling addictions are a symptom. Personally I think he's just an entitled fool with no sense, like he's always been since long before his health declined. He's also a bully so even if she legally took over their finances I expect he would just abuse her until she gives him her financial credentials.

She does have a close friend who is smart and helpful and can stand up to bullies like my dad. As well as my brother. So maybe one of them could be in total control of my parents' finances and prevent my dad from using any credit?

Is there some type of lawyer I could get to help my mom?

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