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The first thing to do is to make sure that step-brother’s name is no longer on ANYTHING. Anything it might have been on needs to be contacted and his name cancelled on any register or bank account.
The problem with the vehicles is that your father made it legally possible for SB to do what he did. There is the same problem with the checks, because father made it a joint account and SB was able to write checks on it. It sounds that he took the money from the joint account and put it into new accounts in his own sole name. It’s just possible that the bank may help, if the accounts are in the same bank.
The only person who might have some liability is your stepsister's husband, for any action that he did or knew about while he had your father’s Power of Attorney. It isn’t clear if this man is the same person that you are referring to as your brother-in-law. The legal requirement to act in your father’s best interests is the POA requirement, whoever it is. The vehicle and check transactions are the evidence that BIL WASN’T acting in your father’s best interests. If he was not the POA himself, the POA should have known what was going on.
After cancelling any references to the POA and BIL on any paperwork, it might be worth talking to anyone else who might help in the step family (your step mother?). Or have the relationships all fallen apart?
Chasing the vehicles is not the way to go, because it was all done legally. You should be looking for a lawyer to take on the POA breaches of responsibility, with the vehicles and the checks as evidence of damages rather than what you are suing about. Depending on how the POA was written, it might be possible to say that it hadn’t yet come into effect, but that is a long shot.
There is a dreadful message here about being very very careful before giving people power over money. It doesn’t help, but so many many people are finding that adult children with drug habits have stolen large sums from them, and this is in a similar problem.
To repeat, your father's possible legal action is for breaches of the POA responsibility to act in the interests of your father. NOT to get the Motor Vehicles Department to transfer the vehicle titles back.