I'm getting in here late, but have been following Court TV this morning. This judge may end up probating the will... here is why according to Florida law if you die in Florida and live in USA Florida probates the will, if you live in a foreign country it probates in the foreign country, BUT Bahamas law states if you don't die in Bahamas your will is not probated in the Bahamas. This judge would 99.9% likely want to know who the father if Dannielynn is.
Does Indian Tribal Land have it's own laws concerning the probate of a will?
But we don't know if she died in FL or in Indian Country.
This is not necessarily the case. My Dad died in Florida but had been a New York resident until the very end of his life.
If my brother and I claimed, as executors, he was a Florida resident, New York State could have come after us for fraudulent avoidance of New York State estate taxes (Florida does not have an estate tax) and cite indicia of domicile (my Dad was registered to vote in New York, had registered his car in New York and paid New York State income taxes). New York is probating my father's will.
Nothing about this case is cut and dried!
I doubt he or ANS kept up the insurance payment premiums if there was insurance involved so that even if there were, at one time, insurance policies, they might not be in effect now.
I read early in this thread that the Marshalls had offered ANS $18 million which she turned down, on advice of her attorneys. Dannielynn will have a guardian ad litem who would agree to a reasonable settlement, I am sure.
It seems HK$ got too inspired by the movie "Body Heat" and drafted a will that accomplished the equivalent of "violating the law against perpetuities," i.e., disinheriting unborn children. He can't run up executor fees on an invalid will.
I wouldn't be surprised if HK$, sensing the gig is up, collects such ill-gotten gains as remain and fakes his own death within the next couple of days, just like Kathleen Turner's character in "Body Heat."