Migrate time machine backup to specific user account

Hi:
I want to move my spouse from her own iMac to a user account on my current MBPro.  I have plenty of disk space on the MBPro.  Can I do a Time Machine backup and then migrate her entire iMac to one user account of my MBPro, leaving my current user account on the MBPro unchanged?
Thanks,
Peter

Use Migration assistant and import her user account from TM backup.
Don't create her user account first. Migrating her account will take care of that.
Shouldn't matter if her previous backup was SL.

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