Overview
- Nick Reiner filed a 136‑page probate petition on June 8 seeking immediate distributions from a $1.5 million trust that he says was half vested at age 30 and never paid.
- The trust’s trustee has withheld payments citing concerns about Reiner’s competence, and TMZ reports the successor trustee plans to ask a judge next week to release the funds.
- Attorney Alan Jackson says he withdrew in January after being told expected family funding would not be provided and filed a declaration that Jake and Romy Reiner had verbally agreed then reversed course.
- Legal experts say California’s slayer statute would likely bar any amounts treated as post‑death inheritance if Reiner is convicted, but attorneys dispute whether the half that vested in 2023 was already distributable.
- A judge’s decision in probate could fund private experts and counsel before Reiner’s Sept. 15 criminal hearing, while a conviction could strip him of future inheritance and reshape family distributions.