40-year-old daughter refuses to sign her 65-year-old mother's POA when her mother refuses to provide the complete document and explain blank sections: 'She also hadn’t signed'

How many of us are ready to suspect our own parents of trying to "work an angle" on us?

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An adult daughter hesitated to sign an incomplete power of attorney document sent by her distant mother, leading to tension between the pair of them.

I think most of us are probably on guard for someone who is trying to work an angle on us, whether if its' someone trying to sell us something without revealing all the details (ahem, real estate agents), our boss who is trying to get more than their pound of flesh from us without additional pay, or a business partner or supplier who is trying to get an edge.

But I don't think many of us would ever suspect our own parents of doing this to us without good reason.

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[Am I wrong] For Not Signing a POA?

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I apologized again, said I also couldn’t sign anything that wasn’t complete and fully executed

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I mean, I'm not a lawyer (or a notary like the mother in this story), but being asked to sign only the signature page before you have the full document is an immediate red flag in any situation. Signing anything that has blank and unsigned sections is just a big no-no that everyone just kind of knows, whether they're familiar with legal documents.
Adding an urgency and pressure to the situation to it too by adding the expectation to “print, sign, and scan” it back quickly before execution.
These are, quite literally, the same tactics that scammers use to social engineer people into giving them money or, worse, unfettered access to private financial details.
If things had been different, if they had been closer, there might be no other reason to suspect that there might be anything sifty happening here.
It's possible the mother is just desensitized to these types of things, accustomed to collecting agent signatures in advance so the final notarized packet can be assembled later. But it's hard to think that she's not trying to get her daughter to sign off on more than she bargained for or to make it look like she had agreed to being cut out of the will entirely.
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