I suspect it's been turned off as well due to the bureaucratic incompetence of the Virginia criminal justice system. That said, the money to pay the taxes and mortgage on 14BLC has to be coming from
somewhere.
There are three possibilities.
- The tugboat has continued and has been accruing in Chris' bank account, minus any automatic payments to credit cards etc.
- The tugboat has been shut off, and Chris will have to go through the pain in the ass process to get it turned back on and claim his back tugboat.
- The tugboat has continued, but Barb has access to Chris' bank account and has been spending it. Chris will have to sue his own mother / sexual victim to get it back, and good luck with that.
The second two possibilities seem the most likely to me.
The money has to be coming from
somewhere. Barb's pension, social security, etc. are probably enough to cover all these bills herself if she's prevented from pissing it all away on the hoard, but we don't know how much to factor in for any medical expenses.
If Barb has unimpeded access to Chris' bank accounts, she will have spent his tugboat. It's not like she would have any moral or ethical impediments to stealing it.