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[quote=Anonymous]Just looking for advice on what kind of planning we should do. SIL has significant mental illness. She currently lives with MIL largely unmedicated (she is in her mid 40s  and has one 12 year old daughter). She has really been decompensating but refuses to get help. MIL is not able to take the steps necessary to get a guardianship/conservatorship or have her committed. They live 2K miles away from us. When MIL passes (she has a current heart condition with deteriorating health) she plans on leaving everything to us (but she is low income so not much). SIL can not live alone . Hopefully her daughter will be 18 and off to college when MIL passes, but if not she will  hopefully go live with her dad as her mother is not capable of taking care of her. SIL can 100% not live with us (I don't believe it is safe) and she can't live alone. So I don't really know what the options are aside from us getting conservatorship over her and committing her (which sounds like a very long expensive road) or essentially let her be homeless. Is there some option I am missing?

I have zero problem with just getting her a small apartment if I thought she could live by herself, but I don't think she can. She experiences extreme paranoia (constantly calling the cops to report people harassing her). I suppose there is the option to get her in home care, but she lives in rural TX so there aren't many options and only has disability. I don't think we can afford anything beyond state care.

Basically it is a mess and I was just wondering if anyone has any advice because I am kind of stressing out thinking about it. [/quote]

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