Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - Nick Reiner, the son of popular movie director Rob Reiner, who is charged with his murd£r, has filed a petition for his inheritance.
The 32-year-old made the shocking demand in court documents
on Monday, requesting the money his parents, Rob and Michele, set aside in a
trust for him.
According to Mail Online, Nick claims in the petition that
he was supposed to receive half of the $1.5 million in his trust when he turned
30, with the other half allocated when he turns 35.
But, he alleges, the current trustee - identified as lawyer
Paul Kanin - 'has offered a shifting series of excuses and justifications' for
not turning over the funds, including 'unsubstantiated "concerns"
about Nick's so-called competence to "manage a trust"' despite the
terms his parents set up.
When he then tried to hire famed defense lawyer Alan Jackson
to help him fight the murder charges, Nick said the trustee refused to pay
Jackson - prompting the lawyer to withdraw from the case and forcing Nick to
turn to a public defender instead.
In his petition, Nick said Kanin indicated that he would not
be able to access funds from the trust until after his guilt or innocence has
been adjudicated by the court.
According to the petition, Nick told Kanin that 'time is of
the essence' and explained that he needed Jackson to avoid 'further
jeopardizing my defense in the criminal matter' as he has no other source of
funding for his legal bills or basic supplies like soap and socks while behind
bars.
'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.
'The harm is irreparable, and it grows with each day the
Trustee withholds funds that are already Nick's.
'In the meantime, for reasons unknown to Petitioner, the
Trustee continues to deplete Nick's funds by paying lawyers to raise one reason
after another for holding on to Nick's money for another two years, all of
which violate the plain terms of the Trust.'
The petition also claims Kanin is seeking to pass on the
trust to another trustee, and that he originally delayed handing over the funds
Nick was owed on his 30th birthday by claiming he believed his predecessor had
already turned over the funds.
Nick is now seeking accounting and damages from Kanin.
The murder suspect is being represented in his criminal case
by Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene, who entered a not guilty plea on his
behalf to six felony charges, two of first-degree murd£r, two of special
circumstances involving multiple murder, and two counts of special
circumstances using a deadly weapon, a knife.
Prosecutors allege Nick killed his parents at their $13.5
million home in upscale Brentwood, Los Angeles, on December 14, fatally
stabbing them before fleeing the scene.
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