Nick Reiner Seeks $325,000 Trust Release for Defense as Trustees Cite Slayer Statute
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Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Sep 19
Nick Reiner Seeks $325,000 Trust Release for Defense as Trustees Cite Slayer Statute
3 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Sep 19
Summary
$325,000 in trust money tied to Carl Reiner is at the center of new civil filings, with Nick Reiner arguing those funds should be released to pay his criminal-defense team.
His lawyers say the California Slayer Statute cannot block money inherited from his grandfather, who died in 2020, and also contend a $558,000 age-30 distribution was already owed before the killings.
Alan Jackson, the high-profile lawyer Reiner wants to rehire, previously withdrew from the Los Angeles murder case for lack of funding; prosecutors have since said they will not seek the death penalty.
The filings also accuse fiduciaries of spending more than $250,000 from the $1.6 million trust on their own legal defense while releasing nothing to Reiner, including for basic jail needs.