I doubt that at the age of 20 and having been out of school for several years that she was trying to enroll him into an engineering program out of state.
Odds are that it was an out of state psychiatric institution that she was trying to get him into with the promise that she would go with him.
But he’s now 20 — an adult — with no criminal record. How do you do that without his cooperation and consent??? If this is the direction she was going then there should be a paper trail.
And why file for Conservatorship of someone with no assets to conserve. If the father was setting up a Trust then he would name the Trustee not the state.
I believe he was still taking college classes at a local state college, so it’s possible that she was trying to find some other program to take him. She seems to have been very involved in his schooling, for better or for worse. And if she wanted to be able to control his college living situation, etc., she would have to have a legal power of attorney of some kind.
However, I suppose it’s also possible that she was looking into hospitalization, although this is so hard to do, especially with a young person (even if he had had a long track record of bizarre behavior), that I’m not sure how she planned to do it.
She had apparently also just spent the weekend in New Hampshire at a resort without him, leaving him at home by himself for the weekend, so it doesn’t seem as if she felt he was in need of supervision or institutionalization.