Is there a legal obligation to care for parents.

ukonline

Hello,

Have been helping to take care of my mother for the last 6 years but am considering cutting ties because of my sister, who lives with her. She is a very unpleasant individual. Obnoxious, controlling, abusive, etc.

I live the other side of town and check on them 2 or 3 times a week.

She is negatively impacting my mental and physical health, which in turn upsets my wife, etc. Things reached a head a couple of years ago and I had a series of very unpleasant panic attacks and had to go on medications. Luckily I eventually weened myself off them, but I'm beginning to feel very stressed again out of frustration due to the ongoing unpleasantness and nasty texts being sent to me for no good reason.

My other sisters won't visit mum when she's there for the same reasons.

Do I have a legal obligation to keep going there?

Is cutting ties a possibility? Is it a legal process?

Just considering options.

Thanks in advance,

Kimbot

ukonline wrote: »

Hello,

Have been helping to take care of my mother for the last 6 years but am considering cutting ties because of my sister, who lives with her. She is a very unpleasant individual. Obnoxious, controlling, abusive, etc.

I live the other side of town and check on them 2 or 3 times a week.

She is negatively impacting my mental and physical health, which in turn upsets my wife, etc. Things reached a head a couple of years ago and I had a series of very unpleasant panic attacks and had to go on medications. Luckily I eventually weened myself off them, but I'm beginning to feel very stressed again out of frustration due to the ongoing unpleasantness and nasty texts being sent to me for no good reason.

My other sisters won't visit mum when she's there for the same reasons.

Do I have a legal obligation to keep going there?

Is cutting ties a possibility? Is it a legal process?

Just considering options.

Thanks in advance,

There is nothing legal to worry about here. If you decide to cut ties with your mother and sister then that is up to yourself. Personally if it is only the sister that is making things bad then only visit your mum when she is not there and block your sister from contacting you but don't cut ties with your mother.

nuac

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Too much personal information here and on previous thread
Suggest you see a solicitor
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