“Funny though how the family comes out of the woodwork with concerns for their homeless relative after she’s gone.”
That’s probably way too harsh. Many families try everything and try it forever to get their loved ones off the street, get them into treatment or rehab, get them back to where they were as kids and teens. They spend lots of money trying to help them, but so often it is absolutely futile and hopeless.
I have no way of knowing, but I believe this family did everything they could to save their daughter. The article says the daughter often went to the family home. You don’t do that if you are completely estranged.
OK, let’s reserve judgment until the lawsuits start happening. As I said earlier, the best thing that could happen is an insurance settlement that is put into a trust for this woman’s daughter.