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Extremely unlikely. A lot depends on the applicable state law and we don’t know the state where the disabled girlfriend lives. It may be that he’d not have any standing and thus would have no shot at all. Even if he did have standing, he may well be precluded from pursuing it by failing to seek guardianship during the guardianship proceedings brought by the parents. Finally, even if he got into court on this, a court will pretty much always give guardianship to a spouse or relative over a legal stranger, even if that stranger had been her boyfriend before the accident. He would, at the very least, have to prove them unfit at this point to get the court to change guardianship. And he may not want it. It is neither easy nor cheap providing care for an incompetent adult.