AS flQ LlVQ By ELIZABETH HURIOCK. PH.D.
Friday, March 30. 19S6
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
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Senile Father' Money
Need's Court Decision
With advancing age, people
frequently become extravagant
with the use of their money.
(Q) "My fa
ther, who is in
his late 70s,
has always
been a success
ful busin e s s
man and has
saved a con
siderable amount of
money, more
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lire very comfortably for the
rest of his life. As a younger
man, he was very careful of his
money, though never actually
light. He was very generous with
all his family. However, in the
past few years, he has worried
me byhis extravagance. He buys
expensive clothes, tips much too
generously, gives bigger contri
butions to charity than he can
actually afford, and is coming to
be an easy target for some of the
people he goes around with who
have less than he. My husband
and I are worried by this be
cause, if it keeps on, we wonder
if there will be enough left to
lake care of him should he have
long illness. When we talk to
him about his extravagance, he
gets angry and tells us he made
the money and he will spend it
s ha wishes. Is there anything
we- can do to check this extrava
Sanee?" L.D.
(A) If you have noticed other
signs of senility, or mental fail
ure, in your'father you could get
his doctor to report to the court
that ho is mentally unfit to han
dle his money and the court
would then appoint you or the
bank as your father's guardian.
This would merely protect his
financial status but arrangements
could be made for him to use
a certain amoust of his money
as he wished. He would merely
not be allowed to draw out of
the bank any amounts he wish
ed and use the money in an
extravagant way.
Doesn't Realize Foolishness
Your father doubtless does not
appreciate how foolish he is act
ing with his money and is get
ting pleasure from spending
what he hesitated to spend when
he was younger. But, because he
is mentally not as alert as he
was when he was younger, he
does not realize he can over
spend and run himself into debt
or become dependent.
The less you say to your fath
er about his extravagant spend
ing, the better. He may misin
terpret your concern to mean
that you are worried about
whether there will be any left
for you to inherit when he is ;
not here. And, this may annoy i
him to the point where he be-!
comes even more extravagant.
Let the bank and the court
handle the problem so you will
not arouse your father's anger.
(COPYRIGHT 1956,
GENERAL FEATURES CORP.)
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