Is Nick Reiner About to Get $1.5 Million to Beat His Parents’ Murder Case?

A probate petition filed in Los Angeles County has brought the Nick Reiner murder case into a second courtroom — one where the rules are different and the stakes may be just as high. Nick Reiner, who has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, is petitioning for the release of more than $1.5 million held in an individual trust his parents established at his birth in 1993.

The filing rests on the trust’s own distribution terms, which the petition characterizes as “mandatory and unconditional”: half payable when the beneficiary turned thirty, the balance at thirty-five. Reiner reached the first distribution threshold more than two years prior to his parents’ deaths. According to the petition, no funds were distributed. His legal team argues that the money has been owed since that birthday and that withholding it from someone who has not been convicted of any crime constitutes a violation of both the trust’s terms and the presumption of innocence.

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis conducts a full examination of both the petition’s merits and the opposition’s tools. On the merits: the enforceability of mandatory distribution language, the relevance of the two-year pre-existing withholding, and the reported procedural pathway in which an unopposed petition may be granted without hearing. On the opposition: the resignation of prior trustee Paul Kanin and his stated concerns about Reiner’s capacity, the succession of Jodi Montgomery as fiduciary, the operation of California’s slayer statute prior to conviction, the freeze reportedly applied to the larger Reiner family trusts, and the recoverability question that underpins the entire dispute — what happens to funds spent on a defense that ends in a guilty verdict.

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