how long does it take to get “legal guardianship”? These people had years to do this. The woman didn’t start her sit in protest just before she died, she was doing it for years. They had time years ago to appeal to the courts for it.
No, not years, certainly. You do have to make the effort to do it, and you need a lawyer. It would cost some money, and the daughter’s disability check would go to the nursing home. While the amount of that check might not seem to be that much to me, it might seem a lot to them.
I suspect that whatever their reasons were, they won’t make a lot of sense to most of us.