Is Nick Reiner Racing the Clock to Drain His Parents’ Trust Fund?

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This episode discusses Nick Reiner's legal maneuver to access his parents' trust fund amidst serious criminal charges.

A hundred and thirty-six pages. That is the length of the probate petition Nick Reiner just filed to force the release of over $1.5 million from the trust fund Rob and Michele Reiner created for their children. He wants the money for a high-powered defense attorney. He wants it for soap and socks. And he wants it before a conviction can trigger the one law designed to stop him. California’s slayer statute says if you intentionally and feloniously kill someone, you do not inherit from them. Not a dollar. Not from the trust. Not from the estate. If Nick Reiner is convicted, the door slams shut. Everything goes to Jake and Romy. So what does Nick do? He files now. He demands the court compel immediate release. He calls the distributions “mandatory and unconditional.” He claims the trustee is using a “shifting series of excuses.” And his petition includes this line: “No use of his funds could be more important.” His legal team is arguing that the charges against him — the charges that he killed his own mother and father — are the reason to speed up the payout, not slow it down. Tony Brueski walks through the petition, the family’s decision to cut Nick off, the legal framework that…

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Host: Tony Brueski

Topics covered

• trust fund
• probate petition
• California slayer statute
• inheritance
• legal strategy
• family dynamics

Keywords

• Nick Reiner
• trust fund
• probate
• inheritance
• California slayer statute
• legal petition
• defense attorney
• family conflict

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