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It sounds like you have your parent's best interest at heart, but it may take some intervention for them to understand that. Try to find someone that BOTH of you trust to have a discussion with about their 'future' that you can involve? Talk to this person before hand, and list the 'situations' you would like to have addressed.
Contact 'elder services' in your area about the best way to handle specific needs. Gently introduce these suggestions into supportive conversations a step at a time.
It isn't easy trying to help, but the effort is well worth it.
Another tip I read somewhere (which we followed) was to not let these issues "die away".....to keep bringing them up from time to time, so that your parents will know that you mean business.
It depends on what kind of company it is, but you may also find help at the Better Business Bureau or Small Business Administration. This is a tale as old as time unfortunately. I hope there have been some safety precautions put in place before now to stop damage by a manipulative outsider.
Secondly, the one who holds the durable power of attorney holds the keys to the kingdom. If that's wifey, then you, his children, will need an attorney to proceed.
Also found out who the corporate counsel is. Improperly using a corporate line of credit could be an event of default and could jeopardize the entire line of credit. Counsel or someone needs to stop this before the mortgagee becomes aware of it and declares a default and accelerates the indebtedness, which might also drive the company into bankruptcy.
Also ask the family members and counsel how to change signatories on the line of credit.
There's another post here about a gold digger scamming a grandfather, as well as other posts on this topic. You might find some additional suggestions by reading how others were advised to address this unfortunate situation, especially the post about the grandfather under siege by his scamming "friend".
https://www.agingcare.com/search.aspx?searchterm=golddigger+scams
I appealed to my folks that they trusted me, I'm fine, don't need your money, and remember what a mess you had with uncle Bob? Had to get guardianship to protect his assets from his drinking buddies? Do you want to put me through that? So I was able to get a broad POA, updated wills, and end of life documents. I then spent months tracking down all the finances that dad had been moving around all over the place and making a big friggin mess of. Finally, imwasvablebto get Dad to sign the paperwork making me signatory to the checking and savings accounts just before the utilities were cut off due to unpaid bills. For the signatory stuff I used JUST IN CASE SOMETHING EVER HAPPENS TO YOU GUYS. Well, it had already happened, but that worked and I got control just in the nick of time.