In the US we have two (actually maybe three) kinds of retirement assests.
One is the federal government social security program. Everyone who works contributes to that and the potential exists for Lori to collect on JR's at some point in the future, but other than money she could be getting on behalf of Tylee she isn't getting anything here. (However, I think the majority opinion here is that she is and has been getting this money.) The possibility of getting more since JJ's father, Charles, is now deceased also exists and I think she is probably also getting this. That would be income each month and as far as I can see, given her lack of working, the only income she'd have coming in on that basis.
The second kind that I almost forgot is a true pension program that results in a payment to a former employee and potentially a spouse of same at some point. While once somewhat common in the US these have become virtually non-existent outside of government employees and some industries where there is a strong union. Odds of this kind of pension program being one that either JR or Charles had and Lori qualifying for any benefit from them is extremely slim, but on the off chance that she does, I don't think this would translate to income until she or her husband are closer to retirement age. On the off chance that JR (where Texas law would control) did have this kind of retirement, then there is a possibility she might have some income coming from this kind of plan. But as I said, these kinds of plans are extremely rare any more although they were common in the past.
The third kind of retirement plan are a combination of plans with one kind that you'll see others call a 401K being the most common. These are better viewed as savings/invested assests, that have special tax treatments (money is invested pre-tax at the time it is invested rather than having to pay an income tax on the money first) and the investment gains are tax sheltered, even if assests are sold to realize a profit and then reinvested in something else. The assests that are bought and sold are normally shares in mutual funds with bonds and potentially stocks also in the mix. This is the most likely retirement plan beyond the default of social security for either of her ex husbands to have. Possibly Tylee inherited (and thus Lori would control) some of JR's from this. (I think in this situation if Lori was awarded any of these then money would have been transferred at the time of the divorce, not at his death.) Charles may have had some retirement assests that fit this mold that Lori inherited as well. The key is that these assests are not going to come to anyone as a stream of income. They're a block of assests that can be converted to cash all at once or left as is, or whatever the person who controls them wants to do, with that decision having different tax consquences, depending on how done. But no one could reasonably classify this as an income stream of $X a month and be truthful.
