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Dear Quentin,
A regular reader here. Recently, there was a story about a
brother stealing money from his parent. Unfortunately, that story rang true for me.
In 2006, my father, then 88, met with an attorney whom my brother and I also used for estate planning. My father intended to create bloodline trusts. I already had a trust for my two children, while my brother had a wife and no children. At the time, my father showed no major cognitive impairment, though he was depressed and later turned out to have long-hidden PTSD from his wartime service in Okinawa.
