Can Nick Reiner Be Stopped From Spending His Parents’ Trust on Their Murder Case?
A 136-page petition now sitting in a Los Angeles probate court makes one of the most uncomfortable legal arguments in recent memory: Nick Reiner, charged with killing both his parents, says the trust they created for him when he was born owes him more than $1.5 million — and he wants it to mount his defense against their murders.
The case turns on four words inside the trust itself: “mandatory and unconditional.” According to the filing, Rob and Michele Reiner locked in the distribution schedule with language that left no room for a trustee’s discretion. Half at thirty. The rest at thirty-five. Nick turned thirty more than two years before the killings, and the petition says the money was never distributed. His lawyers argue it was owed regardless of what happened after — and that withholding it from a man who has pleaded not guilty amounts to punishment before a verdict.
Eric Faddis has prosecuted and defended cases built on exactly this kind of intersection between trust law and criminal exposure. He traces the fight from the trust language through every available countermove: the departing trustee who cited doubts about Nick’s “capacity to make sound decisions” before walking away, the role of California’s slayer statute before any conviction is on the table, the freeze reportedly already imposed on the larger Reiner family trusts, and the formal opposition that Jake and Romy Reiner can file to block their brother’s petition.
Faddis also examines the new trustee stepping in: Jodi Montgomery, formerly Britney Spears’ court-appointed conservator, whose team has reportedly requested a meeting with Nick in custody. And he closes on the question framing everything: if the money is released, spent on attorney Alan Jackson’s defense, and a conviction follows — can the family recover a single dollar?
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