Money Transfer

JDKB17

My mother currently gets maintenance from my father for two of my younger siblings. He pays the money into my bank account at her request. I personally have no written legal agreement to pay her such monies.

She is currently in a relationship with a known credit card theft and fraudster. This man has her completely brainwashed and cause the breakdown in her relationship with myself and one of my siblings.

Due to his recent past and the fact he has access to her bank account I don't feel comfortable in sending her the maintenance money from my father anymore.

I intend on opening a savings account attached to my bank account for my two siblings and transferring the money to there until they are 18 and giving them their money then.

My question is since the money is put into my bank account, technically it is my money and I can do as I wish with it. But am I legally obliged to send my mother the money or can I transfer it into a savings account for my siblings due to my concerns with her relationship.

Many thanks in advance for all assistance.

Victor

You can't get legal advice here. You should talk to a solicitor or perhaps FLAC: https://www.flac.ie/help/centres/

You seem to be receiving the money in trust - there is an expectation that it would go to the benefit (now) of your siblings and mother.

Peregrinus

You don't say why the money is paid to your account rather than hers. But, in the end, this is your mother's money, and it looks to me as though you are receiving it on her behalf, and you have to account to her for it. Although it's paid by way of maintenance in respect of your siblings, maintenance payments don't belong to the children in respect of whom they are paid, but to the parent to whom they are paid.

Defintely take legal advice before you do anything to prevent this money being paid to your mother, or spent as she directs. Act rashly here, and you could find yourself in serious trouble - even criminal trouble. The bottom line here is that this is not your money.