{"id":3429,"date":"2026-04-30T02:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/04\/30\/financial-ruin-and-family-blame-is-buying-a-home-the-answer-for-a-squandering-mother-in-law\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:52:54","slug":"financial-ruin-and-family-blame-is-buying-a-home-the-answer-for-a-squandering-mother-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/04\/30\/financial-ruin-and-family-blame-is-buying-a-home-the-answer-for-a-squandering-mother-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Ruin and Family Blame: Is Buying a Home the Answer for a Squandering Mother-in-Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-something mother-in-law, plagued by a history of addictions including alcohol, affairs, shopping, gambling, and travel, has squandered all her money and now faces homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>She is turning to her son and daughter-in-law for help, believing they owe her financial support and blaming the daughter-in-law for strained family relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The couple is considering buying her a house but fears enabling her destructive behavior and being financially exploited.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/i-am-her-scapegoat-my-mother-in-law-squandered-all-her-money-do-we-buy-her-a-house-so-shes-not-homeless-0d0d58a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM MARKETWATCH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-something mother-in-law, plagued by a history of addictions including alcohol, affairs, shopping, gambling, and travel, has squandered all her money and now faces homelessness. She is turning to her son and daughter-in-law for help, believing they owe her financial support and blaming the daughter-in-law for strained family relationships. The couple is considering buying her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-82049067?width=1260&height=840","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-82049067?width=1260&height=840","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}