My sibling has been acting irrationally toward me. She has enjoyed coming and going in my home as she pleases to visit our mother. My husband and I are the homeowners. I now want to limit her visits to when either myself or my husband is home. My mother is frail but completely competent.
Is this within my rights as the homeowner?
I assume you've tried asking your sister to have the courtesy to call before she turns up, have you?
The thing is, you do have a difficulty. Your husband and you are the homeowners, but your home is your mother's home. That's where she lives, she has no other place of abode. If you restrict visits made to her, you are restricting her right to see whom she likes when she likes. And as she's competent - frail but not vulnerable? - you're on dodgy ground there.
All the same. A normally civilised human being would understand that she can't just breeze into somebody's else's home without being a proper pest. So - what has your sister got to say for herself? And does your mother express any opinion?
and it sounds like the mouse in my kitchen just got brains squirted out his eyeballs . hes stole my peanut butter bait three times today . maybe he was collecting it for when he became TOAST .,.
sucker !!
The way I look at it "your house, your rules" just as long as it doesn't result in your sister not coming over at all to visit with her Mom.
And if your Mom is frail, chances are she wouldn't be left home alone anyway.