Fraudulent Power of Attorney

Alphatauri

How would your sister get her hands on your mother’s house? It’s in your Mother’s name until either it is sold to pay for a nursing home or she sadly dies. In the latter scenario the house would then become part of her estate which would be distributed in accordance with her will.

HampshireH

Having half put into your name isn't the best solution. It just complicated matters further and unnecessarily.

Power of attorney is the sensible route.

[Deleted User]

Alphatauri: My sister and her daughter seem to have been clever and cunning enough to be one step ahead of me (and my brother) all through this so putting their name(s) on the deeds could well be their next step and they could also have forged an will for my mother which will override the one I hold for my mother. We cannot put anything past them at this stage. 
HampshireH: A POA is null and void once the donor dies.

HampshireH

[Deleted User] said:

Alphatauri: My sister and her daughter seem to have been clever and cunning enough to be one step ahead of me (and my brother) all through this so putting their name(s) on the deeds could well be their next step and they could also have forged an will for my mother which will override the one I hold for my mother. We cannot put anything past them at this stage. 
HampshireH: A POA is null and void once the donor dies.

Yes it is. However claiming half a property really complicates things.

But it's your mums choice at the end of the day.

Alphatauri

If you go back to my original post, I advised you to have your email added to the current register as a contact and also to sign up to property alerts. Im sorry but I can’t post links but if you go to gov.uk and search property alert it should take you to the right page.

If you do these two things you will be notified if anyone else tries to change the ownership, take out a mortgage or sell the property. The notification will enable you to step in and prevent fraud being committed, These services were set up to prevent the type of fraud you were talking about. 

Forging a will or forcing your Mother to sign a new will is a separate issue.

[Deleted User]

Alphatauri: Thanx I will do that now (;o)

[Deleted User]

Alphatauri: I have done that! It was really simple! Thanx!

Alphatauri

No problem

CKhalvashi

suerowe53 said:

kipsternol: Absolutely, I will pursue it with the police again but these days it is very hard to contact them directly as you have to go through the Action Fraud team first them they triage the complaint and then pass the report to the police and they either investigate further or tell you there is 'no line of enquiry' - as they've said in our case.
Malthusian: Depressing but probably the case...
Savvy_Sue: My mother didn't even know the money was gone and certainly has had no benefit from it  
Sea_Shell: The niece's was the driving force and her boyfriend and mother (my only sister) are complicit in this. My (only) brother is totally in support of me. 
The attorney hasn't even seen our mom in two months and quite apart from the attorney taking the thousands of pounds from mom's bank she did not perform any of the duties her role should entail as I paid over £1,000 for my father's cremation at Christmas, I paid his £1,300 nursing home fees & £400 pension over payments. And I've been 'keeping' mom since the money went missing in January as I managed to get the bank account frozen but that means mom cannot draw out any money so I am paying for mom's shopping, etc. (her direct debits have been honoured by the bank). Hopefully the revoke has gone through now and we can get access to mom's account. 

The part in bold, can I just confirm that this is not the case.

I have previously passed intelligence to the police on stopping them in the street (although granted I knew the officers by sight, if not by name). I am sure similar would work here.

On the actual attorney basis, there will be a legal duty to keep the funds in use in the best interests of the person being acted for. I suspect that fraud has been committed here, and that it will be a reasonably easy case to solve on the facts given.

Malthusian

I have previously passed intelligence to the police on stopping them in the street (although granted I knew the officers by sight, if not by name). I am sure similar would work here.

Can I just clarify: you stopped a policeman in the street, and told them about a crime where the police had already dropped the case as not worth pursuing, and the victim and her attorney had decided a civil case was not worth pursuing, and the victim wasn't willing to testify, and... something unspecified happened?