Am I wrong for not letting my dad move into my house after he signed away my childhood home?
My dad is 62 and has always been the kind of person who trusts whoever sounds the most confident. After my mom died, he started dating a woman named Carol. I tried to be polite to her, but she pushed fast. Within a year she was living with him, managing his appointments, answering his phone, and telling everyone she was the only person “really there” for him.
Two months ago my dad called me crying because Carol had left and he “didn’t understand the paperwork.” Turns out he signed over his house to her nephew as part of some arrangement I still don’t fully understand. He says he thought it was temporary and that Carol said it would protect the house from taxes or creditors or something. Now he has to leave by the end of the summer. He asked to move into my place “just until things get sorted,” but there is no sorted. He already talked to a lawyer and was told it may be very hard to undo becasue he signed willingly.
Here’s the problem. I begged him for months not to sign anything without showing me first. I even offered to pay for a lawyer to review documents. He told me I was being controlling and that Carol understood these things better than I did. He also let her throw out a lot of my mom’s things because she said the house needed a fresh start.
I have one guest room, but I also have two kids and a husband who remembers how awful my dad was to me during all of this. I told my dad I would help him find a senior apartment and go to appointments, but he cannot live with us. My aunt says I’m punishing a vulnerable man for being manipulated. Maybe I am. But I also feel like moving him in would make my family absorb every consequence he ignored.
Am I wrong?