Personal Finance

Financial abuse is a powerful and dangerous form of intimidation which is a lot more common is Australia than you think.

What makes financial abuse even more insidious is that that the abuser often justifies their actions as caring.

But the bottom line is that financial abuse can leave you extraordinarily exposed.

This sort of abuse often takes the form of a partner in a relationship, or a parent over a child, or an adult child over an elderly parent where the abuser completely controls the finances of the other person and refuses to share any of that responsibility or information.

Financial abuse could be: