Where will food and shelter come from for this 42 year old son?

The son has always lived with his parents. Recently both parents were put in a nursing home. The parents own two homes and a little farmland. The son...
1. has never worked
2. never been married
3. he has no children
4. has been ruled as not handicapped by a physician
5. 42 years old
6. special education student in school

What sources of income are available to him? I know the obvious is to get a job, but he never has and becomes rather violent when pushed to work. Could the parents set up a trust, do some gifting or what other estate planning could they be doing?

Sorry to say, but this is the end result for parents who refuse to allow their children to mature and grow up. What they are left with is a lazy, irresponsible child/adult who has an enormous sense of entitlement.

Let him get angry. Too bad for him. The rest of us had to learn at a much earlier age that we must stand on our own two feet and support our adult selves. Mommy and Daddy can't be expected to do it forever.

Too bad if he doesn't like it. I would not set up any type of trust or whatnot. He's drained his parents enough. To simply give him everything is not going to teach him responsibility and he will continue on this way in life if he is continually handed everything to him. Let him fall on his ass. Perhaps if he actually has to figure out how to live on his own he will learn one of life's most important lessons. Don't depend on others when you're fully capable and able to depend on yourself. Work is not going to kill him. Work would actually be good for him. What 42 year old gets angry and violent when pushed to go find a job? Perhaps he belongs in a mental hospital if thats the case.

Spoiled brat he is.

I guess your point 4 in the first post is the crucial point?

You could arrange second opinions if you feel he is mentally handicapped. Otherwise I agree let him take a few falls and learn how to work and survive.

When are the parents going to be thought of in this equation? They've paid for this son well past the age of 18 and now they're both in nursing homes. Nursing home care is expensive. How do you suggest they pay for their own care if they are expected to trust and give everything they own to their ungrateful, lazy son?

It's appalling that anyone would even be thinking of the son in this situation instead of the elderly parents who have both had to be placed in a nursing home. They worked hard, I'm sure, to secure financial security should something like this happen to them, and all the poster can think of is how the son can be set up to be taken care of by his elderly parents. Tell the sop to get a job like the rest of us have to, and take the diaper off and perhaps contribute to his parent's nursing home care.

I have ZERO sympathy for baby hueys like him.