OMG! My parents just talked to a lawyer and he said that they are in some deep sh*t here! Apparently my grandma put my dad down as power of attorney because she was afraid her husband was going to spend all of her money. Well... since her and her husband have not been married long enough (by whatever law this lawyer was looking at) my parents are the one's responsible for paying for my grandma's care and taking care of her debts. To further complicate things, her husband has put her name on a TON of debts that he had prior to their marriage. Since her husband went against her health directive and kept her alive... there's no telling how long she will live in a nursing home until she actually does die (and all of this time will be spent as a vegetable for the most part because there isn't much hope for recovery). So my parents will have to use the money that my dad's name is on to pay down her debts and pay for her care at a nursing home. My parents are afraid that once her money is gone though... her husband is going to divorce her and leave my dad completely obligated to pay for her expenses. My parents are afraid of losing their house and everything because they cannot afford to pay all of these bills of her's (they are in debt up to their eyeballs as it is). The lawyer that they talked to said that it was entirely possible and that they may have to go to court over it to try to hold my grandma's husband at least half-way liable. My grandma's husband is such a rotten man... he'd totally do it too!
Anyone know anything about the laws in this situation? I can't really ask anyone because my mom told me I couldn't tell anyone about this.
