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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 548118" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>LOL Star...........she only cleared out <strong>some</strong> of the accounts stepdad had, he had several other joint accts and many more accounts in his name only........and I strongly suspect they had triple that as a total. Now, truth be told, his kidscleared out quite a bit of that (illegally), but Mom did manage to get back what had been in joint accounts. I just don't have up to date totals, she showed up on my doorstep with that cash more than 20 yrs ago. But I know stepdad was a tightwad with a capitol T and made Mom look generous because he was terrified of being broke in his old age. Stepdad had pulled some fast ones on her when he was diagnosed terminal.......so those totals could be mind staggering or just comfortable. But the man had enough money that the credit union didn't make a stink when he shifted joint funds into private funds. Which is how my kids lost their college funds. I'm still not sure how that got managed because those accts were in my kids names with their SS numbers and Mom as the guardian or whatever, his name was no where on them. So yeah, oddly enough that kind of money. He was not only a very well paid house painter (jack of all construction sort of guy too) who was a workaholic, he was also the treasurer for the union and I suspected for years was diverting funds not only to himself but others as he always kept his office and the file cabinet pertaining to union business locked up tight. But my hometown police can be bought off so it wouldn't have mattered much if he'd been caught anyway. </p><p></p><p>I can only judge by monies Mom has been generous with since his death after all that mess with the credit union was "fixed" in court. Mom is also a tightwad who doesn't waste or just hand over cash.....yet with what I've seen her doing, well, she'd have to be pretty comfortable to be giving that much out. Otherwise she'd be holding onto it tight. But she never has so much as hinted to what the total amount would be, even when straight out asked. She either changes the subject or just says she's got no worries. I guess after what stepdad's kids did to her she has good reason to be paranoid over that sort of thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 548118, member: 84"] LOL Star...........she only cleared out [B]some[/B] of the accounts stepdad had, he had several other joint accts and many more accounts in his name only........and I strongly suspect they had triple that as a total. Now, truth be told, his kidscleared out quite a bit of that (illegally), but Mom did manage to get back what had been in joint accounts. I just don't have up to date totals, she showed up on my doorstep with that cash more than 20 yrs ago. But I know stepdad was a tightwad with a capitol T and made Mom look generous because he was terrified of being broke in his old age. Stepdad had pulled some fast ones on her when he was diagnosed terminal.......so those totals could be mind staggering or just comfortable. But the man had enough money that the credit union didn't make a stink when he shifted joint funds into private funds. Which is how my kids lost their college funds. I'm still not sure how that got managed because those accts were in my kids names with their SS numbers and Mom as the guardian or whatever, his name was no where on them. So yeah, oddly enough that kind of money. He was not only a very well paid house painter (jack of all construction sort of guy too) who was a workaholic, he was also the treasurer for the union and I suspected for years was diverting funds not only to himself but others as he always kept his office and the file cabinet pertaining to union business locked up tight. But my hometown police can be bought off so it wouldn't have mattered much if he'd been caught anyway. I can only judge by monies Mom has been generous with since his death after all that mess with the credit union was "fixed" in court. Mom is also a tightwad who doesn't waste or just hand over cash.....yet with what I've seen her doing, well, she'd have to be pretty comfortable to be giving that much out. Otherwise she'd be holding onto it tight. But she never has so much as hinted to what the total amount would be, even when straight out asked. She either changes the subject or just says she's got no worries. I guess after what stepdad's kids did to her she has good reason to be paranoid over that sort of thing. [/QUOTE]
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