God, you are right, I never thought about that. Any animals left with him will be neglected. Now that you mention it, I feel like the best thing I could do is find homes for them.

Honestly, he has no idea what all exists junk-wise in some of the storage spaces, so I think I will just stealthily remove some from my own house. At his father's house, I do not feel like I have the right to do that so I will just let him spin his wheels over there until we get a better idea of what will happen with FIL. I did rent a dumpster so what I can do over there is help hubby get rid of all of the trash. Basically, our goal is to fill the dumpster, which I can make him do. We only have 10 days left on the dumpster so at least that will be done in the short term.

If this gives you an idea of how much stuff: it is a 20 yard dumpster and we can absolutely fill it with things that are broken and/or have no value. It is stuff even the thrift stores do not want.

His father can pay for the storage unit until his fate is determined as it is stuff from his house (whether it is his or not - he did let hubby store his junk there). I'll hire movers for the emptying of FIL's apartment at the end of June and that stuff can go to the house.

After spending $1,000, we will be saving $3500/month so that helps the hemorrhaging. What FIL and hubby do from there is up to them.

Thank you for comments and advice. This whole situation is a beast and my feelings of ambivalence towards my husband are not helping. I keep getting confused on what I am obliged to do versus what I want to do versus what is reasonable. You have been very helpful. I appreciate it.