{"id":1476,"date":"2024-03-10T22:02:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2024-03-10T22:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T22:02:21","slug":"boy-who-lives-poorly-without-a-phone-secretly-goes-to-bank-while-parents-are-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"Boy Who Lives Poorly &#038; without a Phone Secretly Goes to Bank While Parents Are Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boy\u2019s parents often told him they were becoming poor day by day since money was very tight. He blindly trusted them and lived an impoverished life until he went to the bank secretly. Redditor inheritenceloss was never allowed to have a phone. His parents also made sure he and his sister never accessed their bank accounts and even seized their debit cards claiming that \u201cmoney was too tight,\u201d But something about his parents\u2019 sudden lavishness gave him the cues for suspicion. During this time, the boy turned 18, and since his parents were on a cruise, he had a plan brewing in his mind. He immediately walked over to the bank to investigate. The Original Poster (OP)\u2019s parents persuaded him and his sister to set up joint bank accounts with their mom\u2019s name tied as the secondary account holder,The decision was immediately made when OP\u2019s grandparents\u2019 will was declared. According to the will, OP\u2019s parents were to receive nothing more than a piece of land. Meanwhile, OP and his sister were set up with annuities paying monthly interest to both of them. Since the siblings were too young to understand money handling, they had no idea their mom could access their accounts.As time ticked by,OP suspected something was sketchy about his parents\u2019 lavish lifestyle, considering how they constantly claimed to being poor. Something about their sudden riches didn\u2019t add up to OP. While the parents lived in luxury, they made sure their children got nothing more than $50 Walmart gift cards each year. They never allowed OP and his sister to leave the house ever since the accounts were set up.When OP turned 18, he reached out to the bank and lied about the debit cards being robbed. The cards were instantly deactivated. It didn\u2019t surprise OP when his parents gave them the liberty only to pay the taxes on the interest. But nothing more was allowed. This continued until the parents seized their children\u2019s debit cards, claiming they\u2019d have to \u201cmanage themselves\u201d since money was too tight. However, it wasn\u2019t the first time they had done something like this. Some time ago, OP\u2019s mom locked away his checks and debit card in a safe in her room. She outright told him he couldn\u2019t be trusted with money Day by day, OP couldn\u2019t help but suspect something was sketchy about his parents becoming overly protective of the money that didn\u2019t belong to them in the first place. When OP turned 18, he reached out to the bank and lied about the debit cards being robbed. The cards were instantly deactivated. Since his parents were on a cruise at the time, OP transferred all his money to a new account, leaving nothing but $2K in his account so that they had enough left to return home. He bought a phone since he was never allowed to use one before. He then took a cab to the office handling his inheritance and set up a deposit for a new bank account. OP set up a new account for his sister too, but she was not allowed to access her funds without a guardian or until she turned 18. With his newfound money, OP bought a car and rented a house. Since his sister also wanted to move in with him, OP turned to random strangers on Reddit\u2019s \u201cLegal Advice\u201d forum for guidance. He asked if it would be \u201ckidnapping\u201d to take her sister under his wing considering she was only 17. \u201cAlso, is what they did illegal?\u201d he asked about his parents using the money from the inheritance from which they were legally cut off. Redditor legaleasetosser, in his top-voted comment, advised OP to seek legal assistance on the matter. \u201cAs far as if what they did was illegal? I don\u2019t know, but a lawyer will. And you need one,\u201d the person advised, adding: \u201cAlso, quick personal advice: GET A FINANCIAL ADVISER!!!!! You just came into a lot of money with not a lot of experience in governing it. Seek out some help, so you manage it wisely.\u201d \u201cAdding onto this, take photos throughout the house, so you have evidence of all the stuff they bought with your money,\u201d asserted user flickering_truth. OP also inquired if his parents would forbid his sister from moving in with him. People on Reddit agreed on the possibility and told him he could not stop his parents from wanting her under their custody until she turned 18. As for the inheritance, OP was aware that his parents weren\u2019t allowed to access the funds. However, how he sorted his issue is uncertain as OP has kept readers in the dark. Meanwhile, it\u2019s still guesswork if he had confronted his parents about accessing the money without his knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boy\u2019s parents often told him they were becoming poor day by day since money was very tight.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"cs-entry"},"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"Arya Roberts","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/q6.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/q6.jpg"},"author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"https:\/\/americapwd.com","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}