📋 What to Know About Managing a Loved One's Money (AARP Article)

SummerOnTheWay1 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:56:21 GMT

FROM THE ARTICLE.

5 Things I Learned From Managing My Mother’s Money.
Author describes how to ease the frustrations of taking over a parent’s finances.

By Beth Pinsker, AARP. Published October 02, 2025.

As her mom’s financial caregiver and estate planner, Beth Pinsker flew about 20,000 miles (10 round trips from Brooklyn, New York, to Florida), spent hundreds of hours on the phone sorting out money issues and even more time filling out forms. Three years after she took on this challenge, and two years since her mom died, she still deals with unfinished paperwork. Pinsker wrote a book based on her experiences, with added research and conversations with experts, called My Mother’s Money.

USE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE.

https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/financial-legal/caregiver-manage-finances/

Re: 📋 What to Know About Managing a Loved One's Money (AARP Article)

GailL1 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:54:55 GMT

Good Article

One thing that has produced a rather complicated procedure for me is that each bank and financial institution wants a POA designation on their OWN form. It is possible to handle things without it but it is so much more complicated that way.

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