Quote:Yes, the Mrs and her brother get on OK.
That’s good. Hopefully it will stay that way. I had great difficulties with my sister.
It’s worth working out what sort of POA your in laws have and what it covers (if your wife hasn't already that is). There should also be a government guide to acting as an attorney. It’s worth reading, at least the Scottish one was anyway.
My parents took out POA documents with springing clauses naming each other, then falling to my sister and myself jointly. Good money for almost useless documents. They never even told me that they had set these documents up. My father’s document was of some use as his alzheimer’s was advancing, but basically my mother’s documents got binned and I helped her arrange a new one.
So, hopefully your wife has a document with her name and her brothers name on the certificate. Hopefully there is no springing clause. Further hopefully they are not named jointly as that will restrict what you can do individually, at many banks. Which is a thing, you’ll find all the banks treat POA in their own way.
But yeah, the sooner they let you give them help where they need it the easier it is in the long run. I tried again and again to get help for my parents. I managed to sort of keep them on the straight and narrow for a number of years then the wheels fell off.