My aunt is hiding my Mom, I don't know if she has POA. Police will not help.

I know this sounds extreme, but have you considered "have you seen me" posters, hopefully with a photo? It's a long shot, I'm sure, but if anyone in town has seen her around, I guess it's worth a shot.

As for Humana, they probably won't tell you anything but you could call them just to feel you tried. But if Humana is her health insurance, are there explanation of service notes in there? The reason I ask is that both mine and my mom's insurance providers tell who is providing service and when. If the explanation of service shows that someone goes to specific places, I wonder if you can figure out how to track her down?

If my mother went missing and she showed up for a visit at her clinic, her clinic does have social workers and, I'm not sure about this, but if I told my story, the social workers might get involved to get things worked-out.

Actually, I did not read all the posts. I see that you called the police and the hospitals and such, but did you see if APS (Adult Protective Services) or any social work office can help? I'm not saying that they can, just giving you a couple more things to try.

There are always two sides to every story.... too bad we can't hear the Aunt's side so we can process this all and give better advice.

Just to recap...I know some posters respond without reading the entire thread, so this may help put things in perspective.

I assumed Memphis was female but his post of 18 hours ago makes it clear that he’s the son, not the daughter.

Memphis queries in his original post:

“How can I find out if my aunt has POA, and if so how to challenge it.” It seems clear to me that his goals are twofold: find his mother, then challenge any POA that's been granted.

Memphis wrote in his post 17 hours ago that he’s still collecting bills from before his father died in September. He later wrote that the bills were for “euipment, a breathing machine and an electric wheelchair.” If these bills are for his mother, it seems as though she was still in the home recently.

The police knew Memphis’ mother was in a hospital but refused to give out further information. It would appear as though they may have had more knowledge of the situation.

Memphis just found bills for medicine from May of this year, so presumably his mother was living in the home at that time, or that she had left and no address change was submitted.

Memphis found cracked eggs on the stove in his mother’s house. Did his mother leave in a hurry? Seems so.

Memphis admitted he was in federal prison from 2007 forward.

If Tennessee has a victim notification program, and if Memphis' aunt and mother signed up, they would have received notification of his release.

In Michigan, this program provides notice sometimes the day before, sometimes the same day. Not much notice, and not much time to clean out a refrigerator if someone wanted to avoid the person being released.

Read PamStegman’s insightful post of 15 hours ago, comment no. 21.

Are Pam, FreqFlyer and me the only ones who see that the aunt may have removed Memphis mother for her own protection?

I'm not insulting anyone who's trying to be helpful to Memphis but there's obviously a lot going on in this situation and it seems as though law enforcement knew not to provide any information on how Memphis can locate his aunt and his mother. That's revealing.

We don't know the crime for which Memphis was imprisoned, but it appears to have been a 2007 - 2014 sentence. We don't know if it was a crime against people or property, or if it was a crime against a family member.

We do know Memphis is determined, and apparently wants to challenge any POA his aunt may have.

Does someone who's just been released from prison, with a criminal record and no job, have a prayer of a hope to legally challenge (w/o any money) any POA and take care of his mother, and would her sister want this?

It's not my intention to insult Memphis but it appears as though the aunt doesn't want him involved, and she obviously has known her sister longer than Memphis. And apparently she was able to step in and provide care for her sister when needed. Is it really appropriate for Memphis to be pursuing his relatives when they've taken precautions to avoid being found?

You can beat up on me all you want, but I still say there's more to this relationship than Memphis has revealed, and the family doesn't want him involved.

In response to garden artist, I went to prison for fraud and related activities in connection with computers. I was basically hacking into bank accounts. This happened in 2003 when I was around 21 years old. The same year they came and took the computer. I then got a good job at a casino and stayed working there until out of nowhere the fed came and arrested me on January 2008 (hence I said 2007). They explained it took them that long to track all the transactions. Anyone who knows the Feds will know this is normal for them, also 6 years is a very, very short sentence for the Feds, I have seen countless people in the Feds for 15 to 20 years for a few grams or even residue of drugs - this can be researched, I'm telling the truth, as unbelievable as it may sound. Plus Feds have no such thing as parole or early release.

Update. The officer I spoke to in the beginning just called me and said he's been on vacation, and wanted some more information. He said something about this isn't right, and he thought about it the whole week he was out, and he will be doing everything he can to find her now that he is back. He knows my past, and that I am not a bad person, he feels that something is wrong with my aunt. So at least some good news. Thank you again to everyone.

Memphis, thanks for the clarifications.

I do think your persepctive differs from that of many people, including me. If my bank account was one of the ones that you hacked, and you stole from me, I certainly wouldn't agree that you "are not a bad person."

Humana won't even talk to you due to HIPAA laws, sorry. Both the DHS and the officer you spoke with will find mom. They will also talk to the POA, which I assume is your aunt. You already know her bank accounts are empty and she left the house suddenly. You can tell from the medications on the Humana bill what her conditions are. If you can't list them here and we will decipher if we can.
If you are on parole in OK but your body is in TN, you might want to get back to OK before your parole officer finds out you left the state. Just saying.

Memphis, please realize you are not a viable candidate for Guardianship. So sorry, your mom is likely in a nursing home under Medicaid. The house probably has a Medicaid lien on the property, you should know how to check that through county records.

Thank everyone so much for your help. I green artist, I am I very different person then that I was when I was a 21 year old kid. Anyway, I do understand. Irregardless I found her. Turns out my aunt abandoned her. My cousin, whom I really don't know then steped in and had her placed in a home. She went so crazy there that they called my cousin and said you have to come get her. She went though he'll trying to find a place for her after that. The reason they haven't told me where she is is because if she she's me then she will most likely go crazy again wanting me to take her home. If that happens then most likely she will get kicked from that home as well, and by no one having POA, and me being out now, I would have to be the one to come get her, with no way once so ever to care for her. So now, what do I do, do I go see her?

Sorry, my phone changes words and spelling on me sometimes, I apologize for my grammar.

No you wouldn't have to take her out, even if she wants to go with you. And you shouldn't. She should be medicated enough to handle in a home. Does this mean a nursing home or some small family home caring for just a few people? How about another talk with the cousin about what are your moms conditions, how she's being treated and come up with a mutual plan for mom. Is your mom at all competent or is she pretty far gone into dementia or another issue? Are you okay knowing how she is or do you need to see her? Now that you've found her you have the same problem that many other posters here have...how to see to it that their loved one has the care they need when they cannot provide that themselves. If mom is okay for now how about you get settled (maybe in the empty family home?) get an income and a life. Work with your cousin and someone who handles elder care issues to work out an ongoing plan. Since mom can't live with you now, or you'll never have a chance to establish yourself, she's going to have to adapt to that...medicated or not. It's hard on you, but it's hard on all the caretakers here who can't fix everything for their family. Put on your oxygen mask first, then see what you can do for her. How did actually find her? Wad your perseverance with the cousin?

You have no money yet you have a smartphone with autocorrect for texting capability?

This is beginning to sound more and more like a troll post.

Start with a compelling story, get sympathy, gradually reveal a criminal past, which might be sympathetic if folks believed you've reformed, plea for help finding your mother (who can resist a good sob story??), then change the direction entirely by suddenly announcing she's found. And that post has some inconsistencies as well.

If you aren't a troll, you still need to get a job and begin paying back all the people whose accounts you hacked. You have that obligation, morally and ethically.

You're in no position to care for your mother.

Initially you wanted to legally challenge whoever may have had a POA, now you're saying you have no way to care for her. So why would you need a POA?

And yet you still want advice.

Well said aritist thought this post smelt a bit!

GardenArtist and Kazzaa, last night I took some of the plot lines that Memphis had used and started a search on the Internet.... thought maybe it was picked up via a Lifetime Movie, but the search came up empty at the moment.

If this was a personal story, it really makes me appreciate my family even more.

Well funny i was just trying to think would it actually be possible to just take someone and disappear like this? i just imagine my aunt talking mum somewhere and me not knowing? i dont know its a little too strange and surely the police can do something. I think theres more to memphis than shes telling us?

I found her through the police, like I said I didn't even know the cousin, but I talked to both her and her husband and they are being very supportive. I cannot care for her, I know that. I'm going through a lot of thoughts now, but no one has POA. Thank you all so so very much, you just don't know how much I think you all

Memphis, go there, but talk to the nurses first about how to approach her. She won't believe her eyes at first. Don't stay too long, don't wear her out. Have a good cry with her and tell her when you will be back.

Game over. Memphis conveniently found his mother, thanks us all and probably won't be back under this identity.

Kazzaa and FreqFlyer, I did the same kind of search. I think this is just one variation on a theme. I'm sure Memphis had his story worked out before he posted. And what a convenient exit he had!

It wouldn't surprise me if his mother is healthy and well, or even if she's already passed away.

Memphis, please note that the Federal government does have *parole*. http://www.justice.gov/uspc/faqs.html

FreqFlyer, good catch.

One would think that someone who spent apparently 7 years or so in the federal prison system would know that parole options are available.

I'm wondering what other parts of Memphis' story are false, or conversely, are there any parts that are true or is this just a whole made up story?

Maybe he's actually a new identity of a previous troll, coming back to play games because he's been dissed before.

Number one garden art or whatever you are you are sick, are you serious? You really think I thought this out?
You will get what you have got coming. Few flyer, you mean to tell me you know more about the Feds than me???????? Feds did away with parole in the 80's, period. Look up fedcure stupid. The fight aginist this has been going in for years. Thank you to all that helped, **** you to all that made up something to pretend to look good. And yeah say something else and make yourself look even more like a fool....

No parole in the Feds idiots you all know noting look up fedcure idiotots

Fed cure. Sorry. Look it up for yourself. I spent years in this, I fink I know what's up, zero parole,
Again..... Look it up, thT died in the 80s

Sorry you have me so mad I can't even htypr straight.

Well, I know of a poster, similar like Memphis, who came on here AC asking the exact same thing like him. She started her own thread- like Memphis. She was hopping on all the other threads asking over and over how can she find her mother. Her family had volunteered her to be their mom's fulltime caregiver. She also had her own disability. She kept asking for help with her siblings. Nothing. Then she crashed - healthwise. When she came back home, her mom was gone. Everyone in the family knew what happened but no one was talking. But this poster did not tell us all this. I only know about it because I took the time to post back and forth with her via our Wall.

Like Memphis, she only gave the bare facts. Her mom is gone, her brother took her. How can we help her find her mom. Every where I read here on AC, some people tried to offer advice. Others just completely ignored it. I just felt soooo bad for her because it was months with her posting over and over. I kept encouraging to keep looking but inside, I knew that she would never find her mother - unless a family member was willing to tattle.

Do you know why her siblings finally approached her? They had put their mom in a NH and her mom was nonstop asking for her fulltime caregiving daughter - whom she became very closed to all those years. She kept crying for her daughter. Not once, did I ever doubt or thought she was a troll. I just felt sooo bad for her.

Memphis, I'm glad you found your mother. Is your mom on medication that will help control her high emotional outbursts? Since you're not able to care for her at the moment, then maybe it's best to back off. Find a decent job, get your feet back on the ground. Ask your cousin and the Home to keep you updated on your mom while you try to get back on track. Because if your worse fears come true, and she acts up, and they kick her out - you both will have no money to support yourselves. Your mom needs 24/7 care - which you don't have the funds to cover it. Then she's worse off outside than inside the home. No one can make this decision but you.

Thank you so much, and I agree completely.
My goal was to make sure she was okay, and now that I know that she is, I know that I can just step back and take your advice. Again, thank you so much.

Bookluvr, I too recall another post which is similar to Memphis style - different scenario, similar issues in style, attitude toward women, escape hatch, change of direction... I think that post was a troll as well; in fact I think it was Memphis with a different screen name.

There are just too many holes in Memphis' story to be real. His last post once again reflects another inconsistency.

My roommate gave me his iPhone 4s, and he upgraded to iPhone 5s. He has me on his AT&T share plan. I'm sorry that I've made some of you to believe that this was a "troll" post. I only just found this place through google. I've never been here before, nor will I ever come back. I only wanted to find out where my mom was, that was all. I thought my aunt took her, but was hiding her, thus I was asking about legal challenges to her POA. Not so that I could try to get her to care for her, because I simply can't, but rather just so that I could see her and know that she is okay. When the police called me back yesterday I found out none of this was the case, and my cousin had placed her into two homes, etc, I've already told the story. Some people here were helpful, and for that I am greatful. Some people here, such as thinking the Feds still have parole, have no idea what they are talking about, and those people are indeed the trolls. I wish everyone here the best. Pero, ya me voy.

Wishing your mom the best.

Federal parole is still around, but not for felons after the law changed in 1987. Memphis is too young to know much about this or had experience with it. Many people on this forum have more years of life experience than Memphis and are familiar with the law the way it used to be. Most of us would have no reason to stay up to date on parole issues for federal felons.

Memphis, ignore the insults. They thought I was a troll at first. Anybody with less than 100 answers is a troll. After a few thousand answers we get upgraded to idiot. LOL