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<blockquote data-quote="overcome mom" data-source="post: 759206" data-attributes="member: 23328"><p>Laura, you son sounds a lot like mine. He also has mental illness and a meth problem, the difference is my son cannot seem to hold a job for more than 5 weeks. He also does things against the law to get money, writing bad checks, selling drugs etc. We set up a special needs trust with a bank as the trustee. It could be a fair amount of money and we didn't want to have to put any family member through the torture of trying to deal with my son begging for money. We set it up so he gets so much a month and can get more if he needs it for rehab. We even set up how much he would get if a month if he is incarcerated. We have someone who will deal with all of our personal effects. He does not know this and I have gone back and forth about telling him. My husband says sometimes he thinks he is just waiting for us to die to get our money although he has never said anything to that effect. He too would spend it all in a short time and probably do something to get in trouble with law or some many drugs he will kill himself. </p><p>I can also tell when he is using. He then only calls for money. If he is doing well he will call just to talk and tells me what happened during his day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="overcome mom, post: 759206, member: 23328"] Laura, you son sounds a lot like mine. He also has mental illness and a meth problem, the difference is my son cannot seem to hold a job for more than 5 weeks. He also does things against the law to get money, writing bad checks, selling drugs etc. We set up a special needs trust with a bank as the trustee. It could be a fair amount of money and we didn't want to have to put any family member through the torture of trying to deal with my son begging for money. We set it up so he gets so much a month and can get more if he needs it for rehab. We even set up how much he would get if a month if he is incarcerated. We have someone who will deal with all of our personal effects. He does not know this and I have gone back and forth about telling him. My husband says sometimes he thinks he is just waiting for us to die to get our money although he has never said anything to that effect. He too would spend it all in a short time and probably do something to get in trouble with law or some many drugs he will kill himself. I can also tell when he is using. He then only calls for money. If he is doing well he will call just to talk and tells me what happened during his day. [/QUOTE]
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