Well, if you ask the question inversely...
I stepped away from my father years ago. He got into a jam with the feds over taxes. Told me about it and said it was about cleared up, but they froze his accounts and he asked to borrow money.
I loaned him the $. Then I find out that it wasn't really about straightened out. Far from it. He hadn't hired someone to deal with the IRS, he was attempting to do it himself. All things we discussed and I suggested and he intimated he was doing. After a while, I called it in. They did pay, but my father's attitude in that and his treatment of us as kids dumb a&$es who didn't agree with him about the current state of affairs in the world etc. was more than enought for me to say vaya con dios.
Wrote him a note, either you shut up and apologize to my sister and wife, or we are done. He apologized but with qualifiers that really he was right and were were morons.
Fugg em. Don't need that sch!t in my life or my family's life.
