Father Mismanaging Money, Selling Gold, and Refusing Transparency – Need Guidance

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Personal Background

  • Age & Marital Status: 31-year-old male, married.
  • Living Arrangement:
    • Living separately from parents, renting a place with my spouse.
    • Parents live in my father’s house.

Reasons for Living Separately

  • Financial Demands from Father:
    • Before marriage, I provided ₹10,000 per month to my father.
    • Additionally, I paid for groceries, cooking gas, and other household expenses.
    • After marriage, it became financially impossible to continue this level of support.
  • Lack of Financial Transparency:
    • My father refuses to share his bank account details, statements, or investment records.
    • He constantly claims to have no money for survival.

Current Financial Concerns

  1. Gold Being Sold:
    • My father is selling my mother’s gold, piece by piece, to cover expenses.
  2. Suspicious Spending:
    • I strongly believe my father is spending money on the “Star Maker” app (buying virtual gifts and coins).
    • I have transaction screenshots that can serve as proof, but my father doesn’t let me access his mobile.
    • He owns four phones that are constantly on charge.
  3. Shady Property Investment:
    • My father spent ₹10 lakh on a dubious property deal using my money.
    • Despite providing 12 years of my bank statements to show he took my money, he denies it and refuses to show his bank records for verification.

Long-Term Concerns

  • Potential Sale of the House:
    • After exhausting the gold, I worry my father will sell the house and squander that money as well.
    • If this happens, my parents will be left with no financial security.

Family Dynamics & Mental Health Challenges

  1. Mother’s Condition:
    • My mother has schizophrenia and struggles with depression.
    • She always sides with my father, believing his claims and denying he is mismanaging money.
  2. Impact on Mother’s Mental Health:
    • My father’s constant complaints about money worsen her depression and schizophrenia.

What legal option I have to protect the assets and money?