Could A Judge Hand Nick Reiner $1.5M Without A Hearing?
About this episode
The episode discusses the potential for a judge to grant Nick Reiner access to his trust fund without a hearing amidst his ongoing legal troubles.
There's a procedural detail in the Nick Reiner trust fund battle that almost nobody is talking about — and it could end this fight before it starts. According to one legal expert, if no one formally opposes Nick's probate petition, a judge could grant it without ever holding a hearing. No arguments. No testimony. More than $1.5 million, released to a man awaiting trial for his parents' killings. Eric Faddis — a former felony prosecutor turned criminal defense attorney who has stood on both sides of fights exactly like this — joins us live to pressure-test every load-bearing claim in the filing. He starts with his gut reaction to the petition itself: a 136-page demand built on the argument that the money stopped being his parents' the moment Nick turned thirty, because the trust made the distributions "mandatory and unconditional." Faddis brings the practitioner's eye to the questions the headlines skip. How strong is mandatory-distribution language when it collides with a double murder charge? What does it mean that the withholding began more than two years before Rob and Michele Reiner died — and does that history help Nick or bury him? Is the petition right that a man who is…
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