STATE- NY
Ever since I was born my grandmother has sent a $10,000 annual gift to all her grandchildren. This money was always deposited into a custodial account for me-until my parents got divorced about 10 years ago. My father's mother was giving the gifts and at that point the checks stopped-or so we thought. I spent the money in the account on college tuition and living expenses with my father contributing to medical and other expenses as applicable according to his divorce aggreement with my mother.
I recently found out from my cousins that my grandmother never stopped sending the gifts and I confirmed this with my grandmother. She started sending the checks to my dad instead. The checks were always written in my name. I confronted my father and he said he had deposited the checks each year into his own checking account and had used the money to pay for expenses of mine. He did not know how much money it was and would not send me anything left over. As recently as two weeks ago my dad recieved a check from my grandmother in my name, failed to inform me, and deposited it into his own account. I'm now 23 years old. The only expenses he has covered in the last 10 years he was obligated to under his divorce settlement with my mother. Since i turned 18 I have covered all my college/living expenses using the original money in my custodial account and i am about to run out.
Do I have a right to recover the amount of all the checks over the last 10 years?
Ever since I was born my grandmother has sent a $10,000 annual gift to all her grandchildren. This money was always deposited into a custodial account for me-until my parents got divorced about 10 years ago. My father's mother was giving the gifts and at that point the checks stopped-or so we thought. I spent the money in the account on college tuition and living expenses with my father contributing to medical and other expenses as applicable according to his divorce aggreement with my mother.
I recently found out from my cousins that my grandmother never stopped sending the gifts and I confirmed this with my grandmother. She started sending the checks to my dad instead. The checks were always written in my name. I confronted my father and he said he had deposited the checks each year into his own checking account and had used the money to pay for expenses of mine. He did not know how much money it was and would not send me anything left over. As recently as two weeks ago my dad recieved a check from my grandmother in my name, failed to inform me, and deposited it into his own account. I'm now 23 years old. The only expenses he has covered in the last 10 years he was obligated to under his divorce settlement with my mother. Since i turned 18 I have covered all my college/living expenses using the original money in my custodial account and i am about to run out.
Do I have a right to recover the amount of all the checks over the last 10 years?
