Overview
- A probate judge issued a temporary order on Thursday that bars the estate and trust from sending money to third parties while rival petitions over Wiggins’ final documents are litigated.
- The estate and trust are reported at about $700,000 and the order blocks payments for donations, scholarships, grants, and potential inheritances.
- Wiggins’ cousin, Veleta Savannah, says a doctor found him alert before he signed a revised will and trust naming her trustee and excluding his children.
- His children, led by daughter Ilahn Wiggins, say he was receiving end-of-life care and heavy medication and that Savannah improperly used a power of attorney to withdraw roughly $20,000 and limit family access to his home.
- Probate judges will review medical records, witness statements and financial transactions to decide the validity of the late singer’s documents and to determine who controls the estate and any planned charitable disbursements.