Elder Abuse...Broken Family...?

Question

I'm only 16 and I feel like I have no power over what happens to my Grandma. She's very old, and there's no question that her eldest daughter (my aunt) is brainwashing her to get her will changed. My mom had 10 brothers and sisters. She was the youngest. She was so far apart in age that she was too young to understand what her sister was doing...at first. What my aunt would do (still does) was she would become good friends with elderly people. She would take care and befriend older people. She'd take them to get alcohol when nobody else would, she'd take them shopping, drive them places and pretty much replace their children in their life with herself. That was fine...but, she started to convince them to change their wills so she could obtain their money. They would leave their money to her when they died, and leave their children nothing. My mom's older siblings were, as bad as this sounds, paid off not to speak of it. They got a portion of the money to keep quiet....continued!

...everything was fine, but a few years later, my mom and a few others became suspicious of the whole thing. The family split up, only two sisters on 'the good side.' Nobody would talk to us. We weren't invited to Christmas dinner or any other family outings. Even my grandma didn't talk to us for a long time. But, the next 'victim' of my aunt was a relative of ours. After he died and my aunt collected the money, chaos occured. My mom, and her sister along with the man's daughter took the whole thing to court. My aunt still got most of the money, and most of the rest went to charity, but that wasn't the point. We got to show her we know what she's doing. My mom's other family members were awaiting their cheques for keeping quiet, but they didn't come. They therefore admitted to everything my aunt has done and joined our side. Maybe not for the best reasons, but still. Anyways, this aunt of mine is now trying to convince my grandma to change her will....continued...

...my grandma has been changing. Even I have noticed this. We try to tell her of what my aunt has done, and is what she is doing...but, she only replies that we're out to get her and that we're trying to take her money. We've been to her lawyer and talked to him but it seems there isn't much we (especially me) can do to protect my grandma. She isn't hurting my grandma, just making up stories to her about us and there is no proof of that. It seems terrible though just to sit around and watch my family suffer like this. What can I do? What can my mom do to help my grandma?

Answer 1

Screw your mom, no offense, she failed. I say this because its on YOU. I'm sorry to tell you this, but your THE BEST CANIDATE to talk to your great-grandma their, coming from you, a smart, compassinate, young lady, the truth would sounds so sweet. Get to her without auntie around and SPILL YOUR F"IN GUTS!!! If you can CRY! Its f'in said!!!!! But your the best one hunnie, its on your shoulders, you ballzing up, to talk to her and lay down the truth of whats going on, is the only option. If that fails, you have no choice, the aunts taking advantage of a BIG social problem thats really beyond you to understand NOR would it help you. But your heart, open to hers, is the best bet. Just you and her, no noe else there, make it so, and there might be a chance..... nothing more intense, nothing more meaningful then a grandkiddo being honest, give it to her, save her, and FEEL FREE TO BROW-BEAT AUNTIE TELL THE DAY YOU DIE, she's not human, she's simply an animal right now.......