Why Is Nick Reiner’s Money Now With Britney Spears’ Old Conservator?

The newest name in the Rob Reiner murder case isn’t a detective, a prosecutor, or a defense attorney. It’s Jodi Pais Montgomery — the professional fiduciary best known as Britney Spears’ former conservator — and she is taking control of Nick Reiner’s money in the middle of the most contentious filing this case has produced. This deep-dive unpacks the trustee shake-up buried inside the probate petition: Paul Kanin, who took over the trust in February, resigning over a reported conflict with the family’s other trusts; Montgomery stepping in mid-fight; and her lawyer requesting a jailhouse meeting with Nick that his public defender flatly shut down over privilege concerns.

Then there’s the sentence. In an email attached to the filing, Montgomery’s side describes the job ahead as helping Nick with “what limited trust funds he does have, knowing that some will need to be preserved to benefit him for the rest of his life.” Before a single probate hearing has been scheduled, the incoming trustee isn’t talking about a payout. She’s talking about preservation — language that reads like budgeting for a life she may already expect him to spend in custody.

We connect that signal to everything else moving under the surface: the criminal consultant allegedly hired at Nick’s expense, the assessment meetings his defense calls a legal minefield, and the effort by Nick’s lawyers to halt the trustee handoff entirely — because a new trustee can mean frozen accounts and a restarted clock. If you’ve followed this case from day one, this is the chess match underneath the headlines: who actually holds the Reiner money now, and what her first sentence on the job tells you about how she plans to hold it.

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