DEAR ATM: Before talking to your step-daughter, you should talk to your husband. Frame the conversation as a matter of financial sustainability and fairness rather than a criticism of his daughter. You might also want to ask why he feels compelled to support her financially, as this might reveal bigger issues.

This is our only disagreement, and I don’t want to rock the boat with my husband, so do I confront his daughter?

My husband’s daughter is in her mid-30s and has always used him like an ATM machine. This used to be merely annoying, but now it is becoming destructive to our finances. We are retired and living right now off the proceeds of the house we sold.

A Houston-based ATM theft crew, suspected of multiple Fort Worth ATM thefts, was caught in the act last month, leading to seven arrests, police said Wednesday. Officers followed the crew to a bank ATM on Hulen Street in mid-January after the Fort Worth Tactical Intelligence Operations Surveillance Team received information about a planned heist.

Seven people, allegedly part of a Houston-based ATM “theft crew,” face organized crime charges following a early morning Jan. 16 police operation, police said.

Police were already investigating several ATM thefts they believed the ring had committed in Fort Worth and received a tip that suspects were traveling back to attempt more thefts, officials said.