Posted on 06/09/2026 8:51:25 AM PDT by DFG
Accused murderer Nick Reiner is fighting in court to get the inheritance left by the parents he is accused of stabbing to death in their $20 million Los Angeles mansion.
A new court petition shows he is fighting to get $750,000 of his $1.5 million trust as his legal bills pile up.
His legendary film director father, Rob Reiner, and his mother, Michele, set aside the trust for him, dictating he was to receive half of the funds when he turned 30 and the other half when he turned 35.
Reiner, 32, now claims the trustee, lawyer Paul Kanin, has refused to hand over the funds, alleging “unsubstantiated ‘concerns’ about Nick’s so-called competence to ‘manage a trust,'” according to documents obtained by Daily Mail.
The accused murderer hired high-profile defense attorney Alan Jackson to represent him in court, but the lawyer withdrew from the case when Kanin refused to hand over the money, forcing Reiner to rely on the services of a public defender.
The petition states “time is of the essence” to get the money to pay Jackson, and argued that any continued delay risks “further jeopardizing my defense in the criminal matter.”
Reiner says he has no other way to pay his legal bills.
“Every additional week of delay is a week in which the counsel of his choice cannot investigate or prepare on his behalf — prejudice to his defense that cannot be undone,” Nick’s lawyers claim, according to the outlet.
“The harm is irreparable and it grows with each day the Trustee withholds funds that are already Nick’s,” they write in the petition.
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OMG!! TYPICAL DEMOCRAT!!
This is one seriously dumb kid.
Demands?
Meathead only had a $3 MILLION estate??
Sounds like he is really between a rock & a hard place. If he is bound over for murder, the money won’t be much help probably.
His lawyers are telling him they need to get paid
“Meathead only had a $3 MILLION estate??”
He probably donated the rest in a trust for left wing causes to improve all our lives.
Public Defender-——PERFECT Justice.
Supposedly 200 million net worth at death.
So he killed them.
-PJ
They must’ve realized the son was off to leave him a small percentage
He has drugs he needs to buy.
He’s an orphan. Have a heart!
This one damaged bizarre kid raised by liberal parents in strange Hollywood. A place where it never freezes, seldom rains and is alien to the climates where caucasian brains evolved.
I had a similar case in my wife’s family. The son has not been convicted of the murders so he IS entitled to be a taker if their will says so.
Cut him some slack, he’s an orphan.
Oops, missed your comment.
Says he had a $20 million dollar mansion.
I don’t see, offhand at least, why he should not have the money (to pay lawyers). Unless there was a clause in the will like, “Not valid if he murders us”.
Oh yeah, meathead is still dead. Thanks for the reminder.
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