Rob And Michele Reiner's Money Could Pay Their Accused Killer's Lawyer

For everyone following the Reiner case who has asked the question out loud — how is this even possible? — this episode is the answer.

Rob and Michele Reiner built a trust for their son Nick when he was a baby. It was an act of love, made decades before anyone could imagine how it would be invoked. Now Nick, who has pleaded not guilty to killing them, is asking a court to release more than $1.5 million of that money to pay the defense attorney fighting the charges. If the petition succeeds, the gift Rob and Michele created becomes the war chest used in the trial over their own deaths.

Jake and Romy Reiner already said no once — they initially agreed to fund their brother's defense, then reversed. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins us to explain what saying no a second time actually looks like: a formal opposition that drags grieving siblings into a probate war against their own brother before the murder trial even begins. Faddis lays out their real options — opposing the petition, asking a judge to freeze the trust until the verdict, leaning on California's slayer statute, which prevents a killing from paying — and he's honest about which of those options actually work and which just feel like fighting back.

He also addresses the scenario this community fears most: the money released, spent, and unrecoverable, followed by a conviction. Is there any path to clawing it back — or would Rob and Michele's final gift be gone for good?

We owe this family clear answers, not outrage. Faddis brings them.

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