re: How should I handle this situation figuring out my Dad used my birth money?

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he's well within his legal rights to use his son's savings.

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absolutely. But that doesn't mean its not theft. It just means its legal.

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It is beyond petty to call a parent's use of a kid's savings as "theft".

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well we are missing a lot of details here. what was the money used for? And how? I will say that what the OP wrote makes me think its theft. its money that the child earned or given that was used for who knows what?

I can tell you that I would be pretty pissed at my sister if she raided the account I set up for my nephew's college to pay for something else.

And I do agree if the uncle thought the father was a dirtbag, he should have protected the assets himself. We did that with the nieces on my wife's side, where we do know the father is a bit of a dirtbag.