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Our next question, I have a question, a questioner who asked to be anonymous,

who says that they are a group of siblings and they have an elderly father who is married to their stepmother.

So they have a stepmother and an elderly father.

And now the elderly father has reached a state where he's not able to take care of himself

and the children are stepping in to help and to take care of the father,

but it requires high maintenance.

There's a lot of money involved to take care of doctors and of visits and whatnot.

And while the father does have a good amount of money saved up,

the stepmother is insisting that since it is their father, the children's father,

and they are all adults that they should take the tabs,

they should finance the upkeep and that she should basically get to enjoy or maintain the money

and be in charge of the money because the father is no longer mentally capable of managing the money.

And so there is a tussle between his wife who is the stepmother of the children

and between the biological children and the question is therefore,

whose responsibility is it financially to take care of this gentleman?

Should this gentleman's money be the primary resource

or do the adult male children who are all working,

they all have their families, they are all having an income,

is it requirement for them?

Now, the answer to this question, there are multiple aspects.

There's a legal aspect, there's an emotional aspect,

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